The gentleman angler : containing short, plain, and easy instructions, whereby the most ignorant beginner may, in a short time, become a perfect artist in angling for salmon, salmon peal, trout, Pike, Carp, Perch, Barbel, Tench, Bream, Chub, Greyling, Mullets, Flounders, Roch, Dace, Gudgeon, &c. With several observations on angling, angle rods, and Artificial Flies; How to chuse the best Hair, and Indian Grass; Of the proper Times and Seasons for River and Pond Fishing; When Fish spawn; And what Baits are chiefly to be used, &c. To which is added, treatise concerning Thames fishing; with an Account of the Nature of such Rivers as empty themselves into it, or are near unto it, &c. Also the Angler's New Song; The Laws of Angling; And the Form of a Licence and Deputation for Angling. Together with an appendix, containing the Method of Rock and Sea Fishing; An Alphabetical Explanation of Technical Words used in the Art of Angling; Choice Receipts for Dressing Fish; And, How to Improve Barren Ground, by turning it into Fish Ponds; With plain Directions how to Make a Trout Pond, &c. By a gentleman, who has made angling his diversion upwards of twenty-eight years.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishing--Early works to 1800.

Fishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],vi,200,[8]p. )

Edition:

The third edition, with large additions.

Other Title:

Gentleman angler

Place of Publication:

London : printed for C. Hitch, at the Red Lion in Pater-Noster Row, [1743?]

Notes:

A reissue of the sheets of the 1736 second edition, with an altered titlepage.

The appendix has a separate titlepage: 'Appendix; containing I The method of rock fishing, and sea fishing; .. IV. How to improve poor or barren ground, by turning it into fish ponds.' London, 1736.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T112098.

OCLC:

642280210