About this book
The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly, but in the use of the live worm, the grasshopper and the frog "Piscator" could speak as a master. There were originally only two interlocutors in the opening scene, "Piscator" and "Viator"; but in the second edition, as if in answer to an objection that "Piscator" had it too much in his own way in praise of angling, he introduced the falconer, "Auceps," changed "Viator" into "Venator" and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his favourite sport. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Chapters (21)
1Chapter 1 Part I - The First Day
2Chapter 1 Part II - The First Day
3Chapter 2 - The Second Day: On the Otter and the Chub
4Chapter 3 - The Third Day: How to Fish for and to Dress the Chavender or Chub
5Chapter 4 - The Third Day continued: On the Nature and Breeding of the Trout, and How to Fish for Him
6Chapter 5 Part I - The Third Day continued: On the Trout
7Chapter 5 Part II - The Third Day continued: On the Trout
8Chapter 6 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Umber or Grayling
9Chapter 7 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Salmon
10Chapter 8 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Luce or Pike
11Chapter 9 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Carp
12Chapter 10 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Bream
13Chapters 11-13 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Tench, the Perch and the Eel
14Chapters 14 - The Fourth Day continued: Of the Barbel
15Chapter 15 - The Fourth Day continued: Of the Gudgeon, the Ruffe and the Bleak
16Chapter 16 - The Fourth Day continued: Is of Nothing, or of Nothing Worth
17Chapter 17 - The Fifth Day continued: Of Roach and Dace
18Chapter 18 - The Fifth Day continued: Of the Minnow or Penk; Loach, Bull-head or Miller's Thumb, and the Stickle-bag
19Chapter 19 - The Fifth Day continued: Of Rivers, and Some Observations of Fish
20Chapter 20 - The Fifth Day continued: Of Fish-Ponds
21Chapter 21 - The Fifth Day continued
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