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Cotton, Charles. A notice of this writer is almost 

 a sine qua non in any book relating to angling, as he was so- 

 closely associated with the father of angling Isaac Walton. 

 He was an expert angler as well as an industrious writer. 

 Born in 1630, after his school education he was sent to 

 Cambridge. In 1656, he married a daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Hutchinson, of the county of Nottingham. He published 

 his first work in 1663, and in the year 1676 he published 

 the second part of the " Complete Angler," in conjunction 

 with Isaac Walton. The work is similar in style to the, 

 first part published by Walton, and since then this cele- 

 brated work has always been published as the writings 

 of Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton. He died in 1687, at 

 Westminster. 



Creeper, The, is the larva of the stone fly, and is a 

 disagreeable looking animal, but trout are extremely fond of 

 it, and consequently it is used very generally. These creepers 



THE CREEPER. 



are found under stones in shallow streams, very near to- 

 the edge, and are so active in their movements that they 

 are not easily captured. When caught, they can be put in 



MAYFLY&CREEPER. 



a .perforated box, with a little damp moss. They will live 

 for some days in this. They are generally baited on a 

 special flight of hooks; one of the hooks is run under the 



