Feast Day of St. Zeno

[kotori]

A patron saint of Anglers.

John Worlidge in his Systema Agriculturæ, the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered (1681), offers these reasons for fishing's enduring popularity:

"There is not any exercise more pleasing nor agreeable to a truly sober and ingenious man than this of angling. It wearieth not a man over-much, it injureth no man . . . neither doth it in any wise debauch him that useth it. The delight of it also rouses up the ingenious early in the spring-mornings they have the benefit of the sweet and pleasant morning air which many, through sluggish[ness], enjoy not."

Got Bait?

 

[TWB]

Nothing more enjoyable than skewering a defenseless little worm.

Ben Franklin, who became a vegetarian, went turncoat when he saw some fishes ate other fishes on one of his trips across the ocean. (Paraphasing) If they are going to eat each other, I don't see why I shouldn't eat them too.

I like to consider myself more enlightened than Franklin. I am a vegetarian.

(yes, chicken and fish are meat)