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Posts: 7 04/20/2009 18:23	Tags : None An earlier post on another board got me wondering about rod building history and for some time I've been curious as to how & when the terms "angler & angling" were first used and how that term came about. Well, the term "angle" and or "to angle" has been used far longer than I had imagined and the earliest usage that I can find was originally published in 1496! I wonder how many know what an "angle" is? LOL (i didn't but I do now) The earliest American book on rod making "The Angler's Workshop Rod Making for the Beginner" that I have found was written by Perry D. Frazer and first published in 1908. Perry's second book on the subject "Amateur Rod Making" was first published in 1914. Thanks to the Gutenberg Project and the Google Books Project many books like these are now available in "public domain" for all to enjoy. I added a new page to my website The RodBuilder's Library entitled Early Angling Literature and both of the Perry books are posted there as well as some of the earliest publications about angling. Most notable are "The Complete Angler" by Izaak Walton 1593-1683 and "A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle" by Dame Juliana Berners published 1496! Enjoy! Raymond Adams Sacramento, Ca "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do" quote by John Wooden www.rodbuildingtutorials.com
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Posts: 157 04/20/2009 23:17	A great reference for historical purposes is Darrel Martins "The Fly-Fisher's Craft" with art and history on flies, rods, hooks and books. Angling is mentioned in the book of Isaiah approx date 700 BC. "The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. " The book also mentions the Egyptians doing some fish farming.
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Posts: 124 04/23/2009 20:52	Hi Raymond, The word "angle"used as we know it in relation to a fish hook or fishing goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks, as the word for "hook" in Latin is "angulum" or "angulus" or something to that effect (I can't quite remember and I'm not looking it up ). Regarding Biblical references; the Old Testament was significantly translated (complete language translation) many times since Isaiah. The word for hook in Isaiah's time, in cultures mentioned in the Old Testament, it is the same word that most of them used for the letter 'V", (can't remember it either) which is what fish-hooks looked like back then (like a "V"). Ancint Hebrews used borrowed words from other cultures just as all cultures do today. The Bible as we know it (Old and New Testaments) didn't refer to fish hooks as "angles" in Isaiah until someone who spoke English translated the Latin word in the Latin translation, which in turn was translated at some point in ancient history from the word for "V", which was the same as the word for "fish hook". Chuck
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Posts: 8 04/23/2009 21:00	Thanks guys! Raymond Adams Sacramento, Ca "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do" quote by John Wooden www.rodbuildingtutorials.com
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