...immutable truths, that these twelve ruled for a hundred and seventy-five years, until Charles Cotton's Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream introduced sixty-five new fly patterns, that in the eighteenth century Richard and Charles Bowlker...

...Walton was eighty-three, the fifth edition of The Compleat Angler was issued with a new section entitled "Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream." It was written by Charles Cotton, Walton's old fishing companion for many years, and concerned the...