The Art Of Angling Greatly Improved

Containing The Most Esteemed Methods Of Angling For Pond And River Fish; The Baits For Each, And How To Obtain And Preserve Them The Choosing Of Rods And Tackle; Also, Instructions In Every Branch Of Fly-Fishing, And For Tne Making Of Flies.

Title	The Art Of Angling Greatly Improved
Author	Unknown
Publisher	Thomas Richardson And Son
Year	1846
Copyright	1846, Thomas Richardson And Son
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The Most Favourable Seasons For Angling: In summer, calm, clear, or, which is preferable, cool, cloudy weather, the wind blowing gently, so that your angling instrument may be used with ease and facility. When a sudden violent shower has ...

Baits: On Baits In General Worms are the most natural baits under water for almost every fish, instances having even occurred of Pike taking them. They should be preserved and cleansed in moderately dry m...

The Red Worm As Bait: Is found in all loamy soils, and ma^y be gathered by following a plough, turning up garden soil, and under boards, bricks, slates, tiles, stones, etc. that have lain undisturbed a short time. It is a ...

Maggot Fishing: Commences as soon as the frost disappears in the spring, and is a good bait in open weather every month in the year. It is used for the same purposes as the cod-bait, and is readily taken by all kinds...

Recipes For The Making Of Pastes For Angling: Almost every experienced angler, who uses paste, has his peculiar method of making it; the following recipes, however, may be considered as the most approved, and most generally to be relied upon. ...

Lines: Fishing-lines are most generally composed of a mixture of silk and hair, and are spun of various lengths. For common Trout-fishing in rivers, twenty to twenty-five yards are sufficient; for lakes, whe...

Rods: Angle rods should be proportioned in length and strength to the different fish which it is intended to be angled for. They ought to bend regularly, and taper gradually; be light in hand, and spring fr...

Hooks: The excellence of hooks depends on their being properly tempered, not too high to snap, or not sufficiently that they may be bent with the fingers. In choice of them, take care that the points are sha...

The Several Haunts Or Resorts Of Fish, And In What Rivers Or Places They Are Most Usually Found: To the angler it is of no small importance to be acquainted with the several kind of rivers, streams, soils, and waters, wrhich e?.ch sort of fish usually frequent; for although it is well known, that...

Artificial Fly Fishing: The most seasonable time for fishing with a fly in a river, is when it is somewhat disturbed by rain, or on a cloudy day, when the waters are moved by a gentle breeze. The most favourable winds are fr...

Materials For Making Artificial Flies: Hooks of all sizes; marking silk of every colour; shoe-maker's wax of softest kind; cock's hackles, those feathers that hang down from the back of their necks, and those near the tail, the black and r...

A Description Of The Fishes. Salmon: The Salmon is a fish of much strength and delicacy, and claims the preference before all other fish. It delights in rivers which have alpine sources, preferring to all others a gravelly-pebbled bottom...

A Description Of A Trout: There are few fish that afford the angler greater diversion than the Trout; they are at all times exceedingly circumspect, and for which reason it is in vain to angle when the water is low, as they th...

A Description Of A Pike: The Pike is a hold voracious fish, and may he fished for during the whole of the year, but the most favourable months are September and October. His general resort is near flags, bulrushes, and water-...

A Description Of A Perch: The Perch affords the angler great diversion, and not only are the baits various, but the modes of using them. Of worms the best kinds are small lob-worms which have not any knot, brandlings, red dung...

A Description Of A Grayling: The Grayling is generally found in clear and quick streams with clayey bottoms. It spawns in April, and sometimes as late as the middle of May. The most approved baits for Grayling are lob-worms, gent...

A Description Of A Ruffe: The principal spawning time of the Ruffe is the beginning of April, but some are said to spawn again in October. In the Elements of Natural History a Ruffe is said to deposit seventy-five thousand egg...

A Description Of A Carp: The time for angling for Carp is very early in the morning, and late in the evening, but they will bite at noon, if disturbed by a sudden flush of water. They prefer deep holes with a very gentle stre...

A Description Of A Tench: The directions given for angling for Carp, are, in a great measure, applicable to that for Tench. Their habits and localities are nearly similar; for there are few ponds or rivers in which, if Carp be...

A Description Of A Bream: The Bream grows to a very large size, sometimes to five or six pounds. The larger ones are called Carp Bream, as they are yellow, resembling the Carp in colour, and are supposed to be a distinct speci...

A Description Of A Barbel: The Barbel is of a fine cast, and handsome shape. He can live in the strongest streams, but prefers shallows ; sharp ones in the summer: sometimes he takes to the deep and swift water about bridges an...

A Description Of A Roach: The Roach, is a handsome fish, inhabiting many of our deep still rivers, and delighting, like others of its genus, in the most quiet waters. The tackle for Roach must be fine and strong; a ...

A Description Of A Dace: In hot weather the Dace is most easily taken with an artificial fly, and prefers most the black and dun flies. They bite best from three in the morning till nine, and from four in the afternoon till n...

A Description Of A Chub: The Chub spawns about the months of April and May, but he may be said to be in perfection in the winter. He frequents sharp earns, and deep holes, that are much shaded, with clayey or gravelly bottoms...

A Description Of A Bleak: The Bleak is a small, fat, pleasant fish, called by some the Fresh-water Sprat, and by others the River Swallow, on account of its continual motion. It will rise, like the Dace, at a common house-fly ...

A Description Of A Gudgeon: The Gudgeon spawns twice or three times in the course of the year, and is in season from March to October. In the summer it delights in shallow streams, the bottoms of which are sandy and gravelly. Th...

A Description Of A Eel: It has been long a matter of dispute in what manner Eels are generated. Lacepede, the eminent French naturalist, decides, in the most unqualified terms, that they are vivipo-rous; whilst, on the other...

A Description Of A Minnow: The Minnow is in season from March to Michaelmas, except immediately after spawning time. It is not inferior to any fish for the excellence of its taste. It begins to bite about an hour after sun-rise...

A Description Of A Loach: The Loach is an inhabitant of clear rivulets, and commonly resides at the bottom among stones and gravel, and is on that account sometimes called by the name of Groundling; it is generally about three...

A Description Of The Smelt: Is well known as a most delicious fish, and in angling for them an exceedingly stiff and strong top must be had to the rod, a strong gut line, heavy float, and from ten to twelve hooks, about eight or...

A Description Of The Flounder: Is originally a sea fish, without scales, which wanders far into fresh waters ; the best are distinguished by red spots. They yield much sport to the angler. It commonly frequents gravelly, sandy bott...

A Description Of A Bullhead: The Bullhead or Miller's-thumb, is to be found in almost all rivers; it rarely exceeds the length of three inches; its general colour is a yellowish olive, much deeper on the head and upper parts of t...

A Description Of A Stickleback: This fish is an almost universal inhabitant of rivers, ponds, and marshes, and when in its full perfection of colour is highly beautiful; the back being of a fine olive green, the sides silvery, and t...