16 Facts About Sport fishing

1.

Early Japanese and Macedonians fly Sport fishing was likely to have been a means of survival, rather than recreation.

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2.

Recreational Sport fishing took a great leap forward after the English Civil War, where a newly found interest in the activity left its mark on the many books and treatises that were written on the subject at the time.

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3.

Sport fishing was the first to describe salmon fishing in Scotland, and both in that and trout-fishing with artificial fly he was a practical angler.

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4.

Sport fishing was the first angler to name the burbot, and commended the salmon of the River Thames.

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5.

Cotton's additions completed the instruction in fly Sport fishing and advised on the making of artificial flies where he listed sixty five varieties.

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6.

Sport fishing went on to invent the Kirby bend, a distinctive hook with an offset point, still commonly used today.

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7.

Sport fishing received a Royal Warrant from three successive monarchs starting with King George IV.

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8.

Sport fishing combined his knowledge of fly fishing with his skill as an engraver and printer, to lavish his work with 20 colour plates.

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9.

In southern England, dry-fly Sport fishing acquired an elitist reputation as the only acceptable method of Sport fishing the slower, clearer rivers of the south such as the River Test and the other chalk streams concentrated in Hampshire, Surrey, Dorset and Berkshire .

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10.

Participation in fly Sport fishing peaked in the early 1920s in the eastern states of Maine and Vermont and in the Midwest in the spring creeks of Wisconsin.

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11.

Big-game fishing started as a sport after the invention of the motorized boat.

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12.

Sport fishing methods vary according to the area fished, the species targeted, the personal strategies of the angler, and the resources available.

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13.

Policy makers have largely ignored the recreational Sport fishing sector but there is a framework for better engagement to ensure that recreational fisheries receive the same attention as commercial fisheries.

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14.

Recreational Sport fishing competitions are a recent innovation in which fishermen compete for prizes based on the total weight of a given species of fish caught within a predetermined time.

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15.

Sport fishing competitions involve individuals if the fishing occurs from land, and usually teams if conducted from boats, as well as specified times and areas for catching fish.

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16.

Occasionally a score is divided by the strength of the Sport fishing line used, yielding more points to those who use thinner, weaker line.

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