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Izaak Walton's definitive work on 17th-Century fishing, The Compleat Angler, is now a literary curiosity rather than a manual. A treatise published this week borrowed from its title but not its style. The Compleat Goggler* introduced a new sport, told the best ways of indulging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goggle Fishing | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Gilpatric, author of The Compleat Goggler and inventor of the sport, was a professional aviator who climbed to a passenger altitude record after three months as a licensed pilot, an advertiser who climbed to a vice-presidency after 13 years with Manhattan's Federal Advertising Agency. Then he escaped to the French Riviera to write popular stories about a Scottish engineer. His spare time he passed in fencing and pistol shooting until he found scaly targets more interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goggle Fishing | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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