dezza
Well-known member
I am the last person to criticise a posters spelling, as we all are guilty of mucking it up from time to time. However I have noticed a mis-spelling? that could lead to historic facts being misconstrued.
I am referring of course to the very common and incorrect usage of the word "course" for what we know as "coarse" fishing.
Where "coarse" with regards to angling came from, or who was the first to coin the term seems a bit of a mystery. At the time of the Mundella Act - 1878 - which created the coarse fish close season we know today, non-salmonids in the Britain were mainly referred to as "freshwater fish". This is probably in deference to the fact that these fishes never get the urge to migrate to sea as do salmon and the trouts.
But back to the main subject of this thread, and here it does seem that it's the game anglers who mainly get it wrong, the word is "coarse" fishing. Let's try and keep things as historically correct as possible.
I am referring of course to the very common and incorrect usage of the word "course" for what we know as "coarse" fishing.
Where "coarse" with regards to angling came from, or who was the first to coin the term seems a bit of a mystery. At the time of the Mundella Act - 1878 - which created the coarse fish close season we know today, non-salmonids in the Britain were mainly referred to as "freshwater fish". This is probably in deference to the fact that these fishes never get the urge to migrate to sea as do salmon and the trouts.
But back to the main subject of this thread, and here it does seem that it's the game anglers who mainly get it wrong, the word is "coarse" fishing. Let's try and keep things as historically correct as possible.
