# ANGLERS: TROUT FISHING ON THE AU SABLE,THE

ANGLERS: TROUT FISHING ON THE AU SABLE,THE 1918 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Isaak Walton, our most famous fisherman, says: ‘O’ the gallant fisher’s life. It is the best of any: Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, and tis beloved by many. Other joys are but toys only this, lawful is; For our skills breed no ill, But content and pleasure.’” Two fishermen in a canoe. “The sportiest fishing in America is brook trout fishing and hip boots are absolutely essential.” Men put on hip boots. “In the woods a man casts off his years; there he finds perpetual youth.” “Casting, the most difficult of fisher’s arts.” “Then, strong lines, cutting the crisp air, alighting softly on the sparkling surface.” “Scaly, slippery, gamey, swift, wet, staring trout.” Fisherman reels in line. “Every ounce of him is fighting weight.” Fisherman nets trout. “Remember Tennyson’s lines: ‘For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.’” Fishermen wading in stream. “Trout fishermen, particularly when in a canoe, prefer downstream.” Boat moves downstream with current. “‘Idle time, not idly spent,’ said Sir Henry Wotton of fishing.” “The immortal Shakespeare wrote: ‘The pleasantest angling is to see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream and greedily devour the treacherous bait.’” Man poles boat while fisherman lands trout. “Angling has become a co-ed institution.” Woman in hip boots casting for trout. “‘There goes my…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1918
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-331)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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