Notes on Fishing, and Selected Fishing Prose and Poetry"Notes on Fishing was Sergei Aksakov's first book, and Russia's first angling treatise. Notes, which has been compared to Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, presents a Russian gentleman's affectionate observations on the fishing tackle, angling techniques, and fish species he came to know during five decades of adventure-filled fishing in the vast Russian steppe and environs of Moscow." "Notes on Fishing, however, goes beyond more discourse on angling; it offers a rich multitude of viewpoints: philosophical, literary, linguistic, ethnographic, biological, and conservationist. Aksakov has imbued his notes with a deep fondness for the Russian land and an expertly conveyed atmosphere of personal and national nostalgia." --Book Jacket. |
Contents
Preface | 5 |
The Rod | 11 |
The Float | 17 |
The Leader | 23 |
On Selecting a Swim | 35 |
Groundbait | 41 |
On Fish in General | 59 |
Minnow | 74 |
Crucian Carp | 112 |
Pike | 124 |
Asp | 131 |
Grayling | 139 |
Floodwater and Fishing the Spring Runoff | 157 |
SpearFishing | 166 |
From Strange Sporting Occurrences | 178 |
Letter to the Editor of Sporting Journal | 190 |
Bleak | 82 |
Roach | 89 |
Chub | 98 |
River Carp | 105 |
To Grisha | 199 |
31 October 1856 | 206 |
| 229 | |
Common terms and phrases
Abramtsevo anglers angling aquatic bait baitfish bank Berg bite boat bottom boulters bread bream Buguruslan burbot carpia cast catch caught chub color crayfish crucian carp deep drag dungworm earthworms edition of Notes especially Etimologicheskii slovar Fasmer fish take fish's fisherman fishing outfit fishing skill float flood-pools floodwater Gogol grayling groundbait gudgeon gutworm hand inches kind of fishing lakes large fish leader Lėvshin little fish live Moscow mouth muzzle-trap never Notes on Fishing numbers Orenburg Province perch pike pounds predatory fish pull redling river carp roach rod and line ruff rushes Russian russkogo iazyka Ryby presnykh vod Ryby Rossii Sabaneev Saint Petersburg Sergei Aksakov Sergei Timofeevich shallow sheatfish Simbirsk sinker Slavophile small fish snags Sobranie sochinenii sometimes spawn spear species of fish sport sportsmen spottie spring stone loach summer swift swim tail taimen tench there's thick trimmers trout Tsaritsyno Turgenev water's surface weeds worm zander