The anglers delight containing the whole art of neat and clean angling; wherein is taught the readiest way to take all sorts of fish, from the pike to the minnow, together with their proper baits, haunts, and time of fishing for them, whether in mere, pond, or river. As also, the method of fishing in Hackney River, & the names of all the best stands there; with the manner of making all sorts of good tackle fit for any water whatsoever. The like never before in print. By William Gilbert, gent.
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- The anglers delight containing the whole art of neat and clean angling; wherein is taught the readiest way to take all sorts of fish, from the pike to the minnow, together with their proper baits, haunts, and time of fishing for them, whether in mere, pond, or river. As also, the method of fishing in Hackney River, & the names of all the best stands there; with the manner of making all sorts of good tackle fit for any water whatsoever. The like never before in print. By William Gilbert, gent.
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- Gilbert, William, 17th cent.
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- London :: printed [by T.M.] for W. Birch at the Peacock at the lower end of Cheapside,
- 1676.
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- Fishing -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
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"The anglers delight containing the whole art of neat and clean angling; wherein is taught the readiest way to take all sorts of fish, from the pike to the minnow, together with their proper baits, haunts, and time of fishing for them, whether in mere, pond, or river. As also, the method of fishing in Hackney River, & the names of all the best stands there; with the manner of making all sorts of good tackle fit for any water whatsoever. The like never before in print. By William Gilbert, gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42741.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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Of the Tench, And how to Fish for Him.
A Tench is the Doctor, as I may say, to all other Fishes; and delight∣eth more in Ponds, and Pits, than in Rivers. And if you will Catch this Tench,
[illustration] depiction of a tench
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He will bite at Paste made of Brown-Bread, and Honey, or at a Marsh-Worm.
He delights much in any Paste, where∣with Tar is mixed.
He will bite also at a smaller Worm, with his Head nipped off; and at a Cod-VVorm, put on the Hook before.
He onely bites in the three hottest Months in the year; For, in the other nine, he stirs not at all.
VVhatsoever Bait you fish for him with, be sure you dip it in Tar; and be chewing still some of the Crum of a White-Loafe; and be often a casting of it into the Water where you Fish, round about your Float; and if they once begin to bite, you will catch them as fast as you can Lay-in:
And so much of the Tench.