Index. 



Rod-making, draw-filing, 213. 

 finishing, 173. 

 fitting and fastening ferrules, 



168,171, 189. 

 gluing bamboo, 213-216. 

 proportioning rods, 159, 162. 

 rings and keepers, 199-202. 

 rounding joints, 158. 

 split-bamboo tips, 207. 

 four - strand split - bamboo, 



208, 213. 

 six-strand split-bamboo, 21 7- 



231. 



tips, 207. 



tools for, 157, 164. 

 wrapping with silk, 233. 

 Rod material, 99. 



Alaska cedar, 139. 



ash and lancewood, 116. 



bamboo. (See Bamboo.) 



beefwood,or bullit-wood,133. 



bethabara, 128. 



bodock, 135. 



bois d'arc (osage - orange), 



135. 



cedar, 119. 

 chow, 142. 

 composite rods, 148. 

 dagame, 144, 146. 

 greenheart, 126. 

 hickory, 121. 

 hornbeam, 123. 

 ironbark, 143. 

 ironwood, native, 123. 

 ironwood, East Indian, 141. 

 jucaro prieto, 145. 

 kranji, 142, 143. 

 lancewood, 116, 152. 

 mahoe, 120. 

 paddle-wood, or roller-wood, 



134. 



pingow, 142. 

 purpleheart, 148. 

 pyengadu, 141. 

 shadblow, 137. 



Rod material, snakewood, or letter- 

 wood, 131. 



split-bamboo, 109, 152. 



table of weights of, 150, 151. 



washaba, 130. 



Rod -wood, cutting, seasoning, and 

 selection of, 121. 



straightening by heat, 165. 



test.ing, 126, 166. 

 Rubbers for wading, 341. 



S. 



Selection and seasoning of rod-wood, 



121. 



Selection of gut, 68, 69. 

 Shadblow, 137. 

 Shoes for wading, 334, 339, 340, 



341. 



Silk, as a line material, 40. 

 Silk, shoddy, 41. 

 Silk-worm, anatomy of, 55. 

 Silk- worm gut. (See Gut.) 

 Silk-worms, American, 57. 



attacus cecropia, 57. 



attacus polyphemus, 63. 



attacus prometheus, 63. 



saturnia cynthia, 64. 



the ailanthus, 64. 

 Simple ferrules vs. do welled, 176. 

 Sizes of rings, 200. 

 Sorting gut, 74. 

 Snakewood, 131. 

 Splicing breaks, 239, 245. 



in bamboo, 248. 

 Split-bamboo rods, 109, 152. 



tips, 207. 



Springs, tempering, 97. 

 Steel rods, 152. 

 Strength of trout, 87. 

 Striking fish, 28, 271, 277, 299. 



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Table of weights of rod materials, 

 150, 151. 



