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Title: The sportsman's book for India
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918, ed
Subjects: Sports -- India
Publisher: London, H. Marshall & Son
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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te ; and willalso serve In some cases as Interesting illustrationsof certain recorded conclusions arrived at frompersonal experience and from the opinions andpractice of others.Literature Although the sport seems so little known,subject^ Indian fishing has received some attention inliterature. The works on the subject are notmany, but they are quite excellent of their kind ;and. Indeed, Mr Thomas, the author of TheRod In India, and Tank Angling, must takehigh rank among living angling writers for hislove of his subject and for his comprehensiveand entertaining treatment of It. Every Indianfisherman should have The Rod in India atleast, and Tank Angling will also be foundIndispensable If he should wish to take up thisbranch of the art Then there Is The AnglersHand-book, a much more modest publicationin both size and price, but thoroughly sound andfull of Information, especially on localities In thePunjab and North India generally. Fishing Inthe Kumaon Lakes, by Dr Walker—a delightful
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A Typical Indian River FISHING 225 book to read—treats of the sport to be had inthe lakes near the hill station of Naini Tal, andas this does not resemble the fishing to be had inany other part, the book would be most useful tothose who desire to try their luck there. These,I believe, complete the list of available works,but, indeed, they supply quite sufficient infor-mation for most parts of the country; and if, inregard to some localities, there may be a lack ofminute detail, a good sportsman will not be toocaptious, remembering that, after all, there isgreat fascination in exploration and discovery onones own account. For those who may wish totake up the zoological side of the subject as astudy. Days * Indian Fishes is the book. I think it may be asserted without fear of con- Grand Fishtradiction that the great mahseer himself, in one caught,of his two or three varieties, will be found inevery perennial river of the country, his size onlyvarying with the volume of water. And wher

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