INDEX. 



Adjusting rods, 172, 174, 201. 

 Age of trout, 344. 

 Ailanthus silk- worm, 64. 

 Alaska cedar, 139. 

 Aluminum bronze, 97. 



reels, 96. 



Ash, as a rod material, 116. 

 Attacus cecropia silk-worm, 57-61. 



polyphemus worm, 63. 



prometheus worm, 63. 

 Automatic reels, 95. 



B. 



Bamboo, as a rod material, 109, 152. 



burns upon, 112. 



gluing, 212, 214. 



how to order, 113. 



planing, 217. 



quality of, 219. 



selection of, 218. 



testing, 221. 



tips, 207. 



to make four -strand rod, 

 208-213. 



to make six-strand rod, 217- 

 231. 



rods, selection of, 114. 



repair of, 115, 248. 

 Beef wood, or bullit-vvood, 133. 

 Bethabara, 128. 

 Bois d'Arc, or bodock, 135. 



Brass, receipt for blacking, 191. 

 Breaks, repair of, 239-246. 



Calcutta bamboo, 109. 

 Casting the fly, 257. 



how to learn, 257. 



position on back cast, 260. 



position on front cast, 268. 



position of elbow, 261. 



position of wrist on back 

 cast, 262. 



position of wrist on forward 

 cast, 263. 



position of body and unem- 

 ployed arm, 263. 



the back cast, 264, 269, 274, 

 275. 



the pause, 265. 



the forward cast, 266, 268. 



cast to be noiseless, 269. 



side cast, 269. 



length of, usual, 160, 270. 



long-distance casting, 270. 



purpose of casting, 276. 



maximum fishing cast, 277. 



postponing back cast, 279, 

 282, 284, 285. 



not all of fly-fishing, 274, 275. 



practice of left hand, 269. 



the strike, 28, 271, 277, 299. 



cautions to the beginner, 279. 

 Cedar, as a rod material, 119. 



