Part I: Its cause
1. The angler's needs 3
2. Hints on fishing 11
3. Excuses 19
4. Miseries 25
5. The truth 31
6. How to keep small fish 39
7. Perilis 45
8. Popular errors 57
9. Spring fever 65
10. Nox ambrosiana 71
11. The wickham 81
12. Back-end dialogues 89
13. In the Olympus club 95
14. Voces populi 99
15. Post prantium 105
16. British freshwater fishes 111
17. The fisherman's tables 127
18. Diagrams 133



Part II: Its cure