Abstract :
IZAAK WALTON´S whimsical book, “The Compleat Angler,” opens with a debate between a hunter, a falconer, and an angler on the merits of their favorite recreations; and it goes on to describe in loving detail the arts of luring the wily trout with worm, or fly, or frog. The reader is beguiled along the way by many curious tales of nature´s ways, as the description of a salmon leap:
