INDEX. 



Nerves of fishes, 26. 



Nets employed in Lake fisheries, 317. 



New York Bay, fishing in, 58. 



Ombre chevalier, the, 441. 

 Oneida Lake, fishes in, 283, 288. 

 Oppian, the poet, 19, 111,427. 

 Outfit for salmon-fishing, 215. 

 Ova of the salmon, securing, 387. 

 Owasco Lake, fishes in, 283. 

 Oyster industry, the, 341. 



Parr, salmon, 373, 374. 



Pasque Island, fishing at, 76. 



Perch, the, 287. 



Perch, the white, 101. 



Perfume bait of M. Chars, 37. 



Philosophy, fish-hook, 185. 



Pickerel, the American, 266 ; skitter- 

 ing for, 277; still-baiting for, 271. 



Pike, the American pickerel, 2G6 ; the 

 glass-eyed or wall-eyed, 288. 



Pike family, the, 429. 



Pike-perch, the common, 423. 



Pilot-fish, the, 425. 



Pine Creek, Penn., anglers on, 192. 



Plaice, the, 431. 



Poachers and poaching, 152. 



Poetry of angling, 141. 



Poisoning fish, 34. 



Pompeii, hook exhumed at, 22. 



Porbeagle, the, 432. . 



Porgee, the, 108. 



Porgee, the big, 425 ; the three-tailed, 

 425. 



Porpoise, the black, 25. 



Porpus, the, 25. 



Portugal, a fish-pond in, 39. 



Prerequisites for fishing, 22. 



Preserving food fishes fresh, 343. 



Pritchard Brothers, 184, 212. 



Propagation of fishes, 21, 378. 



Propelling minnow, the, 298. 



Propulsive power of fishes, 23. 



Pugne Island, 75. 



Queer fishes, 439. 



Rapid River, trout fishing in, 181. 

 Rattling Run, salmon fishing in, 241. 



Ray family, the, 433. 



Reels, 64 ; trout reels, 172 ; 



reels, 212. 



Remy, Joseph, fish-culturist, 356. 

 Rennie, James, 28, 33. 



Rice Lake, the maskinonge of, 278. 



Roach, the, 427. 



Robinson splice, the, 159. 



Rockfish or wrasses, 111-. 



Rockling, the, 430. 



Rods, 54, 58, 66 ; modern splice for 



fly-rods, 1 59 ; fly-rods for trout, 173 ; 



for salmon, 208, 212. 

 Rogers, Sir Walter, 39. 

 Ruggles, Judge Philo T., 30. 

 Russell, Mr. Willis, of Quebec, 214. 

 Rusty dab, the, 431. 



Salmon and trout family, 429. 



Salmon, the, 202 ; outfit for salmon 

 fishing, 207 ; departure for fishing, 

 215 ; fishing in the St. John River, 

 218 ; a morning's experience, 234 ; 

 natural history of, 367 ; feeding 

 young salmon, 392 ; salmon-passes, 

 ladders, etc. , 407. 



Salmon-hatching, 382 ; securing the 

 ova, 487 ; Mr. John Gillone's pro- 

 cess of propagating, 388 ; feeding 

 young, 392. 



Salmon, trolling for, in Scotland, 302.- 



Salmon leaps, 411. 

 Salmonia," 28. 



" Salmoniceps" on liooks, 187. 



Salt-water fisheries, 339. 



Saybrook, 49. 



Scabbard-fish, the, 426. 



Scaling fish, instructions for, 99. 



Scandinavian charr, 441. 



'Schoodic Lake, trout of, 258. 



Scollops, trade in, 340. 



Sea bass, the, 106. 



Sea loach, the, 430. 



Sea salmon, the common, 429. 



Sea snipe, the, 111. 

 Secrets of Angling, " by J. Davors, 37. 



Seneca Lake, trout of, 263; black bass 

 in, 282 ; pike in, 288. 



Senses of fishes, 24. 



Serranus, the lettered, 424 ; the spined, 

 424. 



Shad, the, 324. 



Sharks, 432. 



Shaw, Mr., of Scotland, 24. 



Sheepshead, 84 ; angling for, 92. 



Shiner, the, 294. 



salmon Shiner, the New York, 428. 

 Sierra, cero, or cerus, 134. 

 Silure, the, 439. 

 Silver or sea trout, 255. 



