Monday, May 21, 2018


The Compleat Angler Calendar: January
‘and ‘tis no matter how fine you fish, for nothing will rise in this Month but a Grayling, and of them I never at this season saw any taken with a Flie, of above a foot long in my life: but of the little ones about the bigness of a smelt in a warm day, and a glowing Sun, you may take enough… the whole Month through’.
A Back’s grayling and a cross-section of its gill. Coloured etching by J. Curtis.
via:
Creative Commons via Wellcome Library, London.