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Summer waxed strong across Canada last week and garrulous anglers were telling new fictions to prove an old fact about fishing. Samples:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Summer's Tales | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

¶ Jim Catt of Saint John, N.B. went fishing on the Miramichi River, where salmon are so numerous and eager that they have been known to attack a man wearing a bright necktie with a design of hand-painted trout flies. Catt had just settled down to fish when a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Summer's Tales | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Walker is not interested in golf, polo or social functions, prefers hunting & fishing. He does not smoke, but takes an occasional drink and likes a joke if it is not complicated or highbrow.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Old Pro | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Tackleists & Anglers. Ever since the day some 4,000 years ago, when the Egyptians found out that a stick with a piece of string on it makes a good fishing device, anglers have-been passionately perfecting their sport. Like latter-day bullfighters who prefer cape work to killing, many place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Full of such levelheaded reminders, and sporting a painstaking index and several hundred illustrations, Fishing provides just about all the help a grudgeless, clean-thinkin' angler will need, short of soaking his leader and catching his fish for him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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