Colonel Robert Venables, the Parliamentarian soldier who led the expedition that took Jamaica in 1655, wrote this compact handbook on the ways of taking fish in pond and river: baits, tackle, flies dressed with hackle and fur, and the habits of each kind of fish. Izaak Walton praised it in a prefatory letter; this is the 1825 reprint.
A seventeenth-century companion to The Compleat Angler, for fishermen and lovers of old country books. Download the free EPUB.