CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGE 



Antiquity of the Art of Angling Illustrious persons devoted 

 to it A rational recreation Various kinds of Angling . 1 



CHAPTER I. 



FRESH-WATER FISH. 



The physiology and habits of fish The Salmon The Grayling 

 The Trout The Pike The Perch The Carp The 

 Roach The Dace The Barbel The Chub The Tench 

 The Bream The Bleak The Gudgeon The Minnow 

 The Eel 4 



CHAPTER II. 



RIVERS, PONDS, ETC. 



Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire C ambridgeshire 

 Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon- 

 shire Dorsetshire Durham Essex Gloucestershire 

 Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon- 

 shire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire 

 Middlesex Fishing stations and fishermen on the Thames 

 Other waters in and about London Monmouthshire 

 Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Notting- 

 ham Oxfordshire Rutlandshire Shropshire Somerset- 

 shire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex War- 

 wickshire Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcestershire 

 Yorkshire ..... 36 



