The gentleman angler: containing short, plain, and easy instructions, whereby the most ignorant beginner may, in a short time, become a perfect artist in angling for salmon, salmon peal, trout, Pike, Carp, Perch, Barbel, Tench, Bream, Chub, Greyling, Mullets, Flounders, Roch, Dace, Gudgeon, &c. With several observations on angling, angle rods, and Artificial Flies; How to chuse the best Hair, and Indian Grass; Of the proper Times and Seasons for River and Pond Fishing; When Fish spawn; And what Baits are chiefly to be used, &c. To which is added, treatise concerning Thames fishing; with an Account of the Nature of such Rivers as empty themselves into it, or are near unto it, &c. Also the Angler's New Song; The Laws of Angling; And the Form of a Licence and Deputation for Angling. Together with an appendix, containing the Method of Rock and Sea Fishing; An Alphabetical Explanation of Technical Words used in the Art of Angling; Choice Receipts for Dressing Fish; And, How to Improve Barren Ground, by turning it into Fish Ponds; With plain Directions how to Make a Trout Pond, &c. By a gentleman, who has made angling his diversion upwards of twenty-eight years.

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[1743?]
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London : printed for C. Hitch, at the Red Lion in Pater-Noster Row, [1743?]

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[2],vi,200,[8]p. ; 120.

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The third edition, with large additions.

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ESTC T112098

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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