THE PRACTICAL ANGLER. By Piscator.

1842 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 230mm). Ppvi,293 + 1pp errata. Engraved frontispiece and five engraved plates.

"An excellent treatise by William Hughes, a barrister, who also wrote 'A practical treatise on the choice and cookery of fish.'" (Westwood and Satchell). Salmon trout and grayling fishing with fly, minnow and bait along with bottom fishing for coarse fish, trolling, and other methods, for pike plus a little on sea fishing. Chapters include:- Observations on the nature and habits of the trout; Fly-fishing, both with the natural and artificial fly; Minnow trolling; Bait fishing; Lake and pond fishing; The salmon; The salmon trout; The bull trout; The grayling; The charr; The gwyniad and vendace; The smelt; The common perch; The ruffe or pope; The basse; Fishes of the carp kind; The golden carp; The bream; The barbel; The gudgeon; The loach; Roach and dace; The graining; The blue roach; The rudd; The forked tail roach; The chub or cheven; The ide; The bleak and the minnow; Observations on the tench, and how to angle for him; Observations on the pike, with directions how to fish for him; The grey mullet; The wrasse; The pollack; The burbot or eel pout; The common eel; The conger; The flounder; The miller's thumb or bull head.