Excerpt from Lake and Stream Game Fishing: A Practical Book on the Popular Fresh-Water Game Fish, the Tackle Necessary and How to Use It In the whole field of sport there is, perhaps, no thrill comparable with that which comes of doing fair battle with a gamey fish; he is a worthy oppo nent for any man, and through all the stages of the contest, from the first fierce strike to the final sweep of the landing net, the red blood surges and the nerves tingle in wholesome exhilaration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.