INDEX 



AIR-BUBBLES, how they cling to 



feathers under water, 196, 



197, 198 

 Aitken, Mark, 26, 27, 129, 130, 



131 

 "Amateur Angler," The, on 



striking, 41, 42 



"B" grasps the situation; a 



lesson in brief, 53, 54. 

 " Bad form " in wet-fly fishing, 



described, 82, 83 

 Baillie, James(the professional), 



24 

 Black spiderfly.The (Stewart's), 



234 

 "Blind" hooks, preferred, for 



wet-fly fishing, 204, 205 

 Bondage of fixed rules, when 



to free one's self, 103 

 Broken water, The fishing of, 



47,48,49 

 Burn fishing. See Chapter II., 



11 to 21 

 Burns (the poet), his mistaken 



words, 18 



CHEAP rod, A, and its dearness, 



139, 151, 152 



Clothing briefly referred to, 36 

 Coquet, The, 68, et seq. 

 Critics, The, reference to, 52 

 Cumberland Eden, The, 125, 



126 



" DEVERON, The delights of the," 



essay, 74, et seq. 

 Dochart, The, sluggish portion 



of, described, 67 



Don, The (my last fishing trip 

 at Alford in 1864), 136 



Double-hooked, midge-sized 

 flies, 205, 206, 207 



Dryden, Adam (the profes- 

 sional), 24, 47 



ENERGY, an essential to success, 



128, 129 

 Entomological knowledge, no 



claim to, 184, 185 

 " Ephemera " on the Blue Dun, 



188 

 Equipment,The Angler's, Chap. 



VI., 139 to 182 

 Essay from Fishing Gazette, 



" Fishing with the Wet Fly," 



63 



FLIES, Concerning, 183 to 209 

 Flies, Four separate tables of, 



etc., 210 to 236 

 Forrest & Sons, Messrs., my own 



rod-makers, 140, 141, 144 

 Foster, David, on the Blue Dun, 



186, 187 

 Francis Francis on the Blue 



Dun, 189 



GALE of wind, During; where 



to fish, 102, 103 

 Golden hour of the rise (or 



"hatch") 178, 179 

 " Good form," Preaching the 



doctrine of, 85, 86 

 Greenheart rods, and their 



"steely" action, 147, 148, 149 

 " Greenwell's Glory " fly, 230, 



231, 232 



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