The angler's vade mecum, or, A compendious, yet full, discourse of angling discovering the aptest methods and ways ... for the catching all manner of fresh-water fish ... : together with a brief discourse of fish ponds, and not only the easiest but most palatable ways of dressing all sorts of fish ... / by a lover of angling.
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The angler's vade mecum, or, A compendious, yet full, discourse of angling discovering the aptest methods and ways ... for the catching all manner of fresh-water fish ... : together with a brief discourse of fish ponds, and not only the easiest but most palatable ways of dressing all sorts of fish ... / by a lover of angling.
Author
Chetham, James, 1640-1692.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Bassett ...,
1681.
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Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
Fishes -- Early works to 1800.
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"The angler's vade mecum, or, A compendious, yet full, discourse of angling discovering the aptest methods and ways ... for the catching all manner of fresh-water fish ... : together with a brief discourse of fish ponds, and not only the easiest but most palatable ways of dressing all sorts of fish ... / by a lover of angling." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32790.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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Nature, Season, and Spawning time.
1. THE Salmon is called the King of fresh water Fish, breeds in Rivers relating to the Sea; yet so high as admits of no Tincture of it; they Spawn in the end of August or September, having delighted him∣self all the Summer in the fresh water (into which he comes at Spring,) in October he re∣turns to the Sea, where he lives till Spring, and grows exceeding large, but in the fresh water he only grows fat in the Summer, and if a∣bout Michaelmas he chance to be stopt by Flood-gates or Weirs from going to Sea, and enforced to take up his Winter quarters in the fresh water, he grows sick, lean, unseasona∣ble, kipper, insipid and tasteless; and in one year pines away and Dies. Their Age is a∣bout 10 years, and their growth is very sud∣den after they get into the Sea, as quickly as
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a Gosling becomes a Goose: is about 5 months out of season after Spawning.
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