. The compleat angler. Fishing. T HIRJ3 D AY. Ven. Well, now let's go to your sport of angling. Pisc. Let's be going with all my heart. God keep you all, gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another bitch-otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too. Ven. Now, Piscator, where will you begin to fish? Pisc. We are not yet come to a likely place, I must walk a mile further yet before I begin. Ven. Well then, I pray, as we walk tell me freely, how do you like your lodging, and mine host, and the company ^ Is not mine host a witty man ? Pisc. Sir, I will tell you presently what I t
. The compleat angler. Fishing. T HIRJ3 D AY. Ven. Well, now let's go to your sport of angling. Pisc. Let's be going with all my heart. God keep you all, gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another bitch-otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too. Ven. Now, Piscator, where will you begin to fish? Pisc. We are not yet come to a likely place, I must walk a mile further yet before I begin. Ven. Well then, I pray, as we walk tell me freely, how do you like your lodging, and mine host, and the company ^ Is not mine host a witty man ? Pisc. Sir, I will tell you presently what I think of your host; but first, I will tell you, I am glad these otters were killed ; but I am sorry there are no more otter-killers ; for I know that the want of otter-killers, and the not keeping the fence-months for the preservation of fish, will, in time, prove the destruction of all rivers. And those very few that are left, that make conscience of the laws of the nation, and of keeping days of abstinence, will be forced to eat flesh, or suffer more inconveniences than are yet foreseen. Ven. Why, sir, what be those that you call the fence-months.'' Pisc. Sir, they be principally three, namely, March, April, and May ; for these be the usual months that salmon come out of the sea to spawn in most fresh rivers : and their fry would, about a certain time, return back to the salt water, if they were not hindered by weirs and unlawful gins, which the greedy fishermen set, and so destroy them by thousands ; as they would (being so taught by 68. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687; Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 ed. London ; New York : John Lane
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