The compleat angler, or, Comtemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing; instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream. With draughts of all the fish; ornamented with a number of copper plates, and a great variety of useful and copious notes. With the laws that concern angling; and an appendix, which shews at one view, the proper rivers, haunts, baits, seasons, and hours of biting: general directions, etc., for every fish that is to be angled for; alphabetically digested, in a method singularly useful, and never yet attempted. With short rules relating to the tackle, baits, several ways of angling, and weather improper and proper for the sport. The whole comprizing all that is valuable, instructing, or curious, that has appeared on the subject