I've been trying for a couple months to place an order with Historical Angling and can't seem to get anywhere (hope he is doing well). Does anyone else sell 18th century fishing tackle?
Sorry those aren't actually for "angling" but just for fishing, as "angling" back then meant using artificial lures (mostly what we call flies). I chuckle too that I know folks who think I do Tenkara fishing, which is now a very popular form of fly fishing...., when in fact I do 18th century angling. A fly rod with a line to a fly without a reel wasn't unique to Japan. The Treatyse on Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners was published in 1496.Thanks for the links
You could do it either way. As a cast, you only have at the most 50% more length of line than the length of the rod. But the rod tends to be pretty big. Dappling was the other strategy. Unlike modern Tenkara, the leader doesn't really float that well if at all.How was it practiced? How far could you cast? Was it more like dapping?
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