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Chetwood, who is allow'd by all to have great Skill in 

 that innocent Diversion." In reference to this 

 passage Messrs Satchell and Westwood state in the 

 Bibliotheca Piscatoria, " Thus disingenuously giving 

 his thanks to Chetham, passages of whose Vade- 

 Mecum are copied textually." This statement is 

 absolutely incorrect : the Mr Chetwood referred to is 

 evidently not Chetham, the author of The Angler's 

 Vade-Mecuin ; and that work is not copied from, 

 textually or otherwise. 



This book must have been a very popular one, as 

 it ran through more than fourteen editions ; it is 

 almost more a work on ichthyology than on angling, 

 and its popularity was possibly due to the number of 

 interesting stories which it contains concerning the 

 habits of both river and sea fish. As a practical 

 angling book, though it is not to be compared with 

 Hewlett's Sure Guide -, it nevertheless contains a 

 considerable amount of original information. 



Brookes is, I think, the first author to mention 

 the prawn as a bait for salmon. After describ- 

 ing the mode of using a raw cockle as a salmon 

 bait, he refers as follows to the method of using a 

 prawn : 



The same Day a Brother- Angler caught a Salmon 

 with a Prawn, without so much as using a single Shot 

 to his Line ; instead of that he drew his Bait gently 

 over the Hole on the Verge of the Shallow, and at 

 the same time kept out of sight. 



Judging from the following passage the floating fly 



