INDEX. 235 



FEBRUARY RED, 143, 144, 183 

 described in Treatise, 25, 146; 

 dressing of, 146147. 

 unchanged to-day, 146147. 



FERRULES 



before Stewart's time, 87. 

 first mentioned in Treatise, 20. 



FIELD, THE, articles in, 126, 127. 



FISHING POETRY. 



Dennys, 191; Cotton, 198199; Wotton, 200; Lang, 219; 

 Cochrane, 82; dialect poetry, 210; Barker, 201202; 

 Gay, 208209; Doubleday, 209210; Newcastle Fishers 

 Garlands, 209210; Lady Charlotte Bury, 216. 



FISHING PROSE. 



The Treatise, 30, 31, 192193; Mascall, 193; excellence of 

 Lawson, 194195; Walton, 195197; Cotton's relation 

 to Walton, 198; criticism of Cotton's prose, 198; 

 excellence of seventeenth century, 203; comparison 

 between seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, 212, 

 213, 98; poverty of eighteenth, 83, 84, 203; influence of 

 Walter Scott, 85, 210; eighteenth century writers, 

 206208; Gay's verse better than any prose, 208; 

 nineteenth century, Scrope, Stoddart, Stewart, 

 Ronalds and their followers, 211 215; comparison of 

 Stoddart with Walton, 212213; brilliance of early 

 nineteenth century, 96. Later writers, Lord Grey, 

 217218; Francis, 218; Lang, 219; Halford, 220. 



FITZGIBBON, EDWARD, 84, 103, 107, 217. 

 FLY BOOK. 



first mentioned by Barker, 70. 



FLY DRESSING. 



continuity from early times to to-day, 169. 



earliest directions in Barker, 172. 



excellence of early imitations, 188 190. 



floating flies first dressed, 177. 



imitation of natural insect in Lawson 42; Markham, 71; 



Peacham and Cotton, 71; in Treatise, 144168; 



Markham, 144166; Barker, 74, 172, 173; Venables, 74, 



173; Cotton, 7174, 145176. 

 in seventeenth century, 71; Chetham, 145158; Traitte, 



147168; Bowlker, 145163; his importance, 89. 

 in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the common 



practice is reverse winged, 174, 175. 

 Ronalds, 148 150, 175; his importance, 179; and influence, 



180188. 

 Blacker, 175; Francis, 152163; Halford, 148165; Skues, 



176; Stewart, 175. 

 Stewart's spiders, 73. 

 three schools of imitation 73, 74, 141143 ; form and colour, 



144. 



