The Angler's Guide: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling. This item is unavailable.The Angler's Guide: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling

The Angler's Guide: Being A Complete Practical Treatise On Angling by Thomas Frederick Salter is a comprehensive early 19th?century manual that compiles decades of practical fishing knowledge for both novices and seasoned anglers. The work covers a wide range of topics, from selecting tackle, floats, lines, ground-baiting, and both bottom and float fishing, to detailed methods for numerous freshwater species (roach, dace, chub, barbel, perch, bream, gudgeon, tench, eel, trout, and salmon). It also presents extensive sections on trolling for jack and pike, live-baiting, and the use of night-lines and trimmers, alongside a substantial portion on fly-fishing, including how to fashion artificial flies (palmer and hackle) and how to cast and fish with them. The volume extends to salt-water angling with guidance on mackerel, plaice, turbot, mullet, cod, and other sea fish. Appendices offer paste recipes, worm preservation, weather observations, and a glossary. Rich with practical steps, cautions about ethics and subscription waters, and occasional anecdotal passages, the book stands as a foundational reference for the sport of angling.