About the Book: Curious Methods of Fishing in the World
'Go afishing', goes the exhortations, for someone out to exert his or her effort
in some activity, compulsively. Fishing, thus, has been considered, down the
ages, as inevitable as ploughing the field or even fielding on the cricket
ground in the land of the burra sahibs. This inevitable and compulsive activity
has now, however, assumed great proportions with mechanised techniques taking
over in a very big way from the traditional methods as old as the sea.
This book, published originally in 1933, dwells on all aspects of fishing in
different parts of the world covering