Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters: Also, Miseries of Fishing
By Richard Penn
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Richard Penn
Starting with a degree in Ergonomics, I moved into the High Tech world in the seventies, emerging relatively unscathed twenty years later. I was around when the profession of User Interface Designer had invented itself, and it provided me with a decent living in Canada. I left that business in the late nineties, before the tech bubble burst, going freelance to write custom software for a number of small firms. Now I've retired from all that and moved back to England. I live in the summer on my narrowboat "Delta Vee" (for the uninitiated, that's the rocketry term for a "change in velocity", many narrowboat names refer to slowing down). The winters, I live in a up north, near Hexham. I have two lovely daughters, one a psychologist and the other a veterinary nurse. Since reading early science fiction as a teenager, especially the books by Robert Heinlein, I have been obsessed by humanity's future as a space-dwelling species. The non-fiction book "A Step Further Out" by Jerry Pournelle revealed the serious challenges to this idea, and got me thinking about ways of overcoming them. Several ideas and years of calculation later, I had a detailed simulation of the colonisation of the Solar System, with named individuals travelling about under the control of a realistic simulation of the motion of the various lumps of rock that fly about up there. Turning the simulation into anything other than a vastly expanded virtual train set was the challenge. This book is an attempt at that. If you spend all your spare moments in a complex imaginary world, you can be considered insane. Unless you share it with some other people, then you are an author. The big questions people ask when I talk about this world are: why would anyone want to go, and why wouldn't it turn into wild-west chaos. I've found there is no short answer to these questions, and fiction seems like the best way to address them. The "why" question seems so obvious to me I can't assemble arguments to it. The "peace" question is so broad, it's going to take several books for me to answer it to my own satisfaction.
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Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters - Richard Penn
Richard Penn
Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters
Also, Miseries of Fishing
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4057664563415
Table of Contents
MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR AN ANGLER.
MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR AN ANGLER: BY A BUNGLER.
MISERIES OF FISHING.
MISERIES OF FISHING.
MORE MISERIES.
MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR A CHESS PLAYER.
MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR A CHESS PLAYER.
MAXIMS AND HINTS ON SHOOTING AND OTHER MATTERS.
MAXIMS AND HINTS ON SHOOTING, &c. &c.
MAXIMS AND HINTS
FOR
AN ANGLER.
Table of Contents
"You see the ways the fisherman doth take
"To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
"Behold! how he engageth all his wits,
"Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets:
"Yet fish there be, that neither hook nor line,
"Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine;
"They must be groped for, and be tickled too,
Or they will not be catch'd, whate'er you do.
John Bunyan
MAXIMS AND HINTS
FOR
AN ANGLER:
BY
A BUNGLER.
Table of Contents
[Loosely thrown out, in order to provoke contradiction, and elicit truth from the expert.]
I.
Are
there any fish in the river to which you are going?
II.
Having settled the above question in the affirmative, get some person who knows the water to show you whereabout the fish usually lie; and when he shows them to you, do not show yourself to them.
III.
Comparatively coarse fishing will succeed better when you are not seen by the fish, than the finest when they see you.
IV.
Do not imagine that, because a fish does not instantly dart off on first seeing you, he is the less aware of your presence; he almost always on such occasions ceases to feed, and pays you the compliment of devoting his whole attention to you, whilst he is preparing for a start whenever the apprehended danger becomes sufficiently imminent.
V.
By wading when the sun does not shine, you may walk in the river within eighteen or twenty yards below a fish, which would be immediately driven away by your walking on the bank on either side, though at a greater distance from him.
VI.
When you are fishing with the natural May-fly, it is as well to wait for a passing cloud, as to drive away the fish by putting your fly to him in the glare of the sunshine, when he will not take it.
VII.
If you pass your fly neatly and well three times over a trout, and he refuses it, do not wait any longer for him: you may be sure that he has seen the line of invitation which you have sent over the water to him, and does not intend to come.
VIII.
If your line be nearly taut, as it ought to be, with little or no gut in the water, a good fish will always hook himself, on your gently raising the top of the rod when he has taken the fly.
"Whence he is to be instantly whipt out by an expert assistant, furnished," &c. To face page 6.Whence he is to be instantly whipt out by an expert assistant, furnished,
&c.
To face page 6.
IX.
If you are above a fish in the stream when you hook him, get below him as soon as you can; and remember that if you pull him, but for an instant, against the stream, he will, if a heavy fish, break his hold; or if he should be firmly hooked, you will probably find that the united strength of the stream and fish is too much for your skill and tackle.
X.
I do not think that a fish has much power of stopping himself if, immediately on being hooked, he is moved slowly with the current, under the attractive influence of your rod and line. He will soon find that a forced march of this sort is very fatiguing, and he may then be brought, by a well-regulated exercise of gentle