Excerpt from The Salmon
The able author of the Badminton volum fishing writes of the great progress of our know] on the subject during the last two decades. Doubt some problems have been solved by 'ex ment and observation, but I incline to rath modest View of the advance made, and to dwell l the difficulties still unsolved, rather than upon additions made to our stock of positive informa Let me take old Izaak Walton's 'complete An published in 1653, to see what was known at time by that not very accurate compiler and obse premising that most of his information was lawyers would call 'hearsay' only, and that it i certain that he ever saw a live salmon in his life is true that he makes a casual allusion to h: caught them; but he gives no account of adventures with them and they did not haun usual hunting grounds.
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