page_title: A Book on Angling
section_title: Contents
hierarchical_section_title: A Book on Angling / Contents
caption_attribution_description: English: Plate XV - Salmon Fly Dressing from A Book on Angling, Francis Francis, 1876
context_page_description: A Book on Angling – Being a complete treatise on the art of angling in every branch is a work of angling literature with significant fly fishing content written by Francis Francis, angling editor to The Field and published in London in 1867 by Longmans, Green and Company.
context_section_description: From the 4th Edition (1876)
  Chapter I – Bottom-Fishing
  The Origin of Angling, Pond-Fishing, Punt-Fishing, The Norfolk Style, Bank-Fishing, The Gudgeon, The Pope, The Bleak, The Roach, The Rudd, The Dace, The Chub, The Barbel – 1
  Chapter II – Bottom-Fishing Continued.
  Nottingham Angling, Casting From the Reel, Daceing, Tight Corking, The Slider, etc. – 61
  Chapter III – Bottom-Fishing Continued
  The Bream, The Carp, The Tench, The Eel, The Perch, Paternostering, etc. – 73
  Chapter IV – Mid-Water Fishing.
  The Pike, Spinning, Trolling With the Dead Gorge, Live Baiting, etc. – 100
  Chapter V – Artificial Fly-Fishing.
  Varieties of Trout, Instructions as to Rods and Tackle, How To Use Them, Weather, How To Choose Flies, Dress, Night-fishing -138
  Chapter VI – Artificial Flies
  Contrast of Systems, Copying Nature And Copying Nothing, List of Flies For Each Month -185
  Chapter VII – On Lake-Fishing, Etc.
  Lake-Fishing, Daping, The Creeper, The Beetle, The Worm – 250
  Chapter VIII – Spinning For Trout
  Spinning for Large Trout, Spinning for Trout In Small Streams, The Par-Tail, The Grayling – 278
  Chapter IX – The Salmon
  The Rod, The Reel and Line, How To Use Them, Casting, Striking, Playing A Salmon, Sea-Trout Fishing – 303
  Chapter X – Salmon Flies.
  List of Salmon Flies, General Flies, List of Flies for Scotch Rivers – 333
  Chapter XI – Salmon Flies Continued.
  List of Flies for Irish Rivers – 392
  Chapter XII – Salmon Flies Continued
  List of Flies for Wales and England, List of Sea-Trout Flies – 426
caption: Plate XV – Salmon Fly Dressing
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