Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters / Also, Miseries of Fishing

With Wood-Cuts. BY RICHARD PENN, Esq., F.R.S. ———— A NEW EDITION, ENLARGED. ———— LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. ——— MDCCCXLII.
LONDON: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.
THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS FROM THE Common-Place-Book OF THE HOUGHTON FISHING CLUB ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO HIS BROTHER ANGLERS BY A MEMBER OF THE CLUB.
London, March, 1833.


You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make? Behold! how he engageth all his wits, Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets: Yet fish there be, that neither hook nor line, Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine; They must be groped for, and be tickled too, Or they will not be catch'd, whate'er you do. John Bunyan

Are there any fish in the river to which you are going?
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Having settled the above question in the affirmative, get some person who knows the water to show you whereabout the fish usually lie; and when he shows them to you, do not show yourself to them.
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