CONTENTS. 



Page 



Preface ... ... ... ... ... ... v 



'• Angling we will go.' — A Song, with Cuts ... ... ix 



Four Plates of Angling Apparatus, Flies, &c. ... ... to face 1 



PART I. 



BOTTOM-FISHING. 



Chap. 1. — Preliminary Discourse on Angling, the Choice of Tackle, &c 1 



2. — On Rods, Lines, Gut, Hair, and Hooks ... ... 5 



3, — For baiting the Hook, to take or plumb the Depth, &c. ... 14 



4. — Directions how to make every kind of Paste useful in killing 

 or taking Fish, with Observations on Salmon Spawn, 



Wheat, &c. ... ... ... ... 18 



5.— Ground-Bait ... ... ... ... ... 24 



6 The Pink or Minnow ... ... ... ... 36 



7.— The Gudgeon ... ... ... ... ... 42 



8.— The Perch ... ... ... ... ... 47 



9 — The Barbel and Chub ... .. ... ... 59 



10.— The Roach ... ... ... ... 73 



11 — The Dace or Dare ... ... ... ... 81 



12.— The Tench and Carp ... ... ... ... 84 



13 The Trout ... ... ... ... ... 97 



14 — The Bream, and Bream Dace Flat, or Red Eye ... 114 



15 The Eel ... ... ... ... ... 121 



16 — Directions for fitting, baiting, and laying Night and Chain 



Lines, for Eels ... ... ... ... 135 



17. — The Fluke, or Flounder, Smelt, Grayling, and Salmon ... 147 



13. — AngUng for Salt-water Fish ... ... ... 158 



PART II. 



TROLLING. 



Chap. 1 — Prefatory Remarks on Trolling for Jack or Pike ... 174 



2. — The Gorge-Hook, and how to bait it ... ... 177 



3. — Single Hooks for Live-bait Fishing ; to bait them ; with Di- 

 rections for tying or whipping Hooks to Gimp ... 181 



