The Fishing Gazette

[Rod Fisher]

Stream Fishing for Chub in Winter by Henry Coxon (1894)

Including a tutorial on baiting with pith and brains, with a pro-tip involving half a coconut.

The Monks Pool (1880)

A pastoral tale of carp fishing with peas - and a murder mystery resolved.

Sammy and his 7lb perch (1906)

A character study.

[Rod Fisher]

Volumes 1 & 2: 1877 & 1878

Volume 3: 1879

Volume 4: 1880

Volume 5: 1881

Volume 6: 1882

Volume 7: 1883

Volume 8: January to June 1884

Volume 9: July to December 1884

Volume 10: January to June 1885

Volume 11: July to December 1885

Volume 12: January to June 1886

Volume 13: July to December 1886

Volume 14: January to June 1887

Volume 15: July to December 1887

Volume 16: January to June 1888

Volume 17: July to December 1888

Volume 18: January to June 1889

Volume 19: July to December 1889

Volume 20: January to June 1890

Volume 21: July to December 1890

Volume 22: January to June 1891

Volume 23: July to December 1891

Volume 24: January to June 1892

Volume 25: July to December 1892

Volume 26: January to June 1893

Volume 27: July to December 1893

Volume 28: January to June 1894

Volume 29: July to December 1894

Volume 30: January to June 1895

Volume 31: July to December 1895

Volume 32: January to June 1896

Volume 33: July to December 1896

Volume 34: January to June 1897

Volume 35: July to December 1897

Volume 36: January to June 1898

Volume 37: July to December 1898

Volume 38: January to June 1899

Volume 39: July to December 1899

Volume 40: January to December 1900

Volume 41: July to December 1900

Volume 42: January to June 1901

Volume 43: July to December 1901

Volume 44: January to June 1902

Volume 45: July to December 1902

Volume 46: January to June 1903

Volume 47: July to December 1903

Volume 48: January to June 1904

Volume 49: July to December 1904

Volume 50: January to June 1905

Volume 51: July to December 1905

Volume 52: January to June 1906

Volume 53: July to December 1906

Volume 54: January to June 1907

Volume 55: July to December 1907

Volume 56: January to June 1908

Volume 57: July to December 1908

Volume 58: January to June 1909

Volume 59: July to December 1909

Volume 60: January to June 1910

Volume 61: July to December 1910

Some of the missing volumes may be available from the British Newspaper Archives, although that is a subscription based service.

I have found a bunch more volumes on Google books and added them to the OP.

[Rod Fisher]

10 points if you can tell me what this was used for.


February 27th, 1886

No sniggering in the back.

[Paul F]

Is it an early form of butt pad?

[Rod Fisher]

Is it an early form of butt pad?

Good guess, but no. It is a "coil horn" for looping line onto before you cast, as recommended by Hi Regan.

Mr. George Loudon, of Mayo, was, I believe, its inventor, and it certainly deserves consideration if only in recognition of one of the finest anglers who ever wet a line. He employed it only in salmon-fishing, but it is equally useful to trout or pike-fishers.
The illustration explains the contrivance, which should be strapped over the left sleeve of the fishing - jacket. From experience, I can vouch that it requires little practice to give out off the coils with perfect precision by throwing forward the left hand deftly when using a single-handed rod, or by bending out the wrist a little when both hands are employed with a “double- hander.”

[Rod Fisher]

It is a "coil horn" for looping line onto before you cast, as recommended by Hi Regan.

[Shropshire Lad]

Alfred Jardine must have had a big house to store all those dead pike in, I am so glad that for the vast majority of anglers today a photograph is all that is required of that memorable fish.

[Rod Fisher]

F. G. 23/03/1895

[Rod Fisher]

Highlights of 1895: The Bambridge Saga.
Bambridge claimed - without evidence - that Nottingham reels were invented in Eton. Henry Coxon quickly set him right with a History of the Nottingham Wooden Winch.
Bambridge also argued with (editor) Marston about fly-tying over several weeks, the pugnacious Bambridge taking it so seriously he virtually offered to fight about it.

Highlights of 1896: The 9th International Fly and Bait Casting Tournament.
Henry Coxon again wading into the letters pages here, and proving himself a sore loser; this time calling out the Thames casting style and throwing shade on (Wimbledon Park Lake keeper) Arthur Newham in particular (Newham having won the light float class handily with 215ft to Coxon's 167ft third place). Newham responded with a challenge to 1V1 him.

[Rod Fisher]