INDEX. 



Acids, disagreeable to Fish, 29. 



Angling, information thereon, difficult to obtain, and why.— See the Preface, 



•, preliminary discourse thereon, 1. 



, remarks on, for every month of the year, 335 ; rules and desultory 



observations relative to, 342; acts relative to, with admonitions to An- 

 glers, 355, 



Angler not to be discouraged, and why, 348. 



Angler's Guide, the Author's motive for publishing. — See the Preface. 



Angle-rod, different kinds described, 4. 



xVsh-fly, natural and artificial, described, 280. 



Author's, the, opinion of the different methods practised in trolling or fishing 

 for Jack and Pike, 239. 



Baits for all kinds of Fish, 61. — See Barbel, Chub, &c. ; observations on, 352. 



Bait not to be taken out too quick, when trolling, 229. 



Bank-runner described, 246 ; when useful, ib. 



Bannister's water, on the Lea. — See Hews's. 



Barbel, the name of, whence derived, 59 ; large and abundant in the Thames 

 and Lea, ib. ; best method of dressing them for the table, ib. ; spawn unwhole- 

 some, ib. ; yield much sport to the Angler, ib. ; mode of angling for, 61 ; 

 a remarkable large one often hooked at Hampton, 66 ; scratching for, 

 how practised, 320. 



Bass, described, and how angled for, 171. 



Battersea-bridge, fishery at, described, 320. 



Bee, where found good bait for Chub, 284 ; how to extract the sting, ib. 



Black-thorn fly, when and where found, 280. 



Blackfriars-bridge, fishery at, described, 320. 



Beresford's fishery. — See White-house. 



Bleak, where abundant, 36 ; how angled for, ib.; ground bait for, ib. ; described, 

 ib. ; baits for, when dapping, ib. ; sometimes mad, ib. 



Bleak-Hall, fishery at, described, 328 ; anecdote of Mathew Cook, 329. 



Blood-worms, where obtained, 298 ; good for various Fish, ib. 



Blue-house water described, 329. 



Bobbing for Eels, how practised, 125. 



Bobs, what, and of what use, 306. 



Bottom-fishing, the most ancient way of angling.— See the Bock of Job, Chap. 14. 



See Float-fishing. 



