The compleat fisher: or, the true art of angling. Being a clear and speedy way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish, with the worm, fly, paste, and other baits, in their proper seasons: How to know the Haunts of Fish, and Angle for them in all Waters and Weathers, at the Top, Middle, or Bottom: Baiting of the Ground, and Night Baits, Oyls, and Ointments, Baits Natural and Artificial: The several Ways of Angling: To make Oyl of Asper, and many rare Secrets, never before made Publick; containing the whole Body of Angling, and Mystery of a Compleat Angler. To Fish in Hackney River, the best Stands, and how to make the best Tackling to Fish there. By J. S. a brother of the angle.
- Smith, John, active 1684-1704.
- Date:
- 1716
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Also known as
True art of angling
Publication/Creation
London : printed for G. Conyers at the Ring, and J. and B. Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain, 1716.
Physical description
[2],164p. : ill. ; 180.
Contributors
Edition
The fourth edition, enlarged.
References note
ESTC N28008
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.