Description
This antiquarian volume contains a guide to ice fishing, with tips for setting up and getting started on the ice, information on equipment needed, decoys used, best lines to a staying warm, and some tales of great catches. Written in clear, plain language and full of invaluable tips and hints, this text is ideal for the beginner, and makes for a great addition to collections of angling literature. The chapters of this book include: ‘Introduction to Ice Fishing’, ‘Tools and the Trade’, ‘Pike and Pickerel’, ‘Tilts’, ‘Setting In’, ‘Dull-Day Tactics’, ‘Tending and Hauling’, ‘Jigging’, ‘Perch – Baits and Tackle’, ‘Perch Methods’, ‘Decoys’, ‘Fly Fishing’, ‘Setting up and Fishing on the Ice’, ‘Spearing Sturgeon Under the Ice’, and ‘Ice-Fishing for Great Pike’. We are republishing this book now complete with a new introduction on the history of fishing.
