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.
Publication
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 14, 2024.

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6. Grey Drake

Is in all shapes and dimensions perfectly the same with the green Drake, but quite al∣most of another colour, being of a paler and more livid yellow, and green and ribb'd with black quite down his body, with black shining wings, diaphanous and very tender, Cobweb like, it comes in, and is taken after the green Drake, and in a Dub-fly kills very well. Its made of the whitish Down of a Hogs bristles, and black Spaniels Fur mixt, and rib'd down the body with black Silk, the whisks of the tail of the hairs of the Beard of a black Cat, and the wings of the black grey feather of a Mallard.

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