The compleat fisher [electronic resource] : Or, The true act of angling. Being [a] clear and speedy way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish, with the worm, fly, paste, and other baits, in their proper seasons: how to know the haunts of fish, and angle for them in all waters and weathers, at the top, middle, or bottom: baiting of the ground, and night baits, oyls, and ointments, baits natural and artificial: the several ways of angling: to make oyl of asper, and many rare secrets, never before made publick, containing the whole body of angling, and mystery of a compleat angler. To fish in Hockney river, the best stands, and how to make the best tackling to fish there. By J.S. a brother of the angle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John, fl. 1684-1704.

Standardized Title:

True art of angling

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishing--Early works to 1800.

Fishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],164p. )

Edition:

The fifth edition, enlarged.

Other Title:

Compleat fisher

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for G. Conyers at the Ring, and J. & B. Sprint at the Bull in Little-Britain, 1725.

Notes:

Attributed to John Smith (Wing).

First published in 1696 as 'The true art of angling'.

Price on title page: Price 6d.

Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T165503.

OCLC:

509073284