TABLE OF CONTENTS, x 



EEL FISHING. The ledger line; float line; night line; bobbing; trimmers; 

 sniggling; eel-spears. Live fish or worm baits. How to bait the hooks. 

 Where to fish for eels; how to strike them 424-428 



BOTTOM FISHING FOR COMMON TROUT, LAKE TROUT, AND SEA TROUT. The rod ; 

 the casting line ; the gut bait and tackle. The best baits, and how to bait 

 with them. The minnow ; the devil-bait. The season of trout ; the best 

 water; how to cast and play the worm; how to strike; caterpillars; 

 grubs; salmon roe; how to use dead and live minnows. How to spin; 

 Walton's, Stoddart's, and Hawker's theory 428-435 



TROLLING FOR LAKE TROUT. Order of description. The rod; the reel; the 

 line ; the train of hooks. The bait and flies ; the bait and kettle ; the boat 

 and oarsman ; how to strike the fish 435-443 



NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING. 

 Where practised; the difference between the two .... 444,445 



APPARATUS FOR DIPPING AND WHIPPING. The rod for dipping ; the fly-rod, 

 line, and reel ; the flies ; how to cast ; from the left shoulder ; the figure of 

 8; how to play the fly 445-452 



TROUT FISHING. The two-handed rod ; the professed fly-fisher ; the practical 

 fly -fisher; how to fish any water; how to throw the flies; how to strike; 

 how to play and kill 452-457 



SALMON FISHING. The tackle ; the salmon-rod ; the salmon-line ; the flics ; 

 how to cast ; how to choose flies ; where to cast for fish. Cast from the 

 left shoulder, sometimes the reverse. Length of line ; Mr. Stoddart's rule. 

 How to work the fly on the water. Salmon less scary than trout ; to strike 

 the salmon ; to play the salmon ; one third of fish hooked escape ; size and 

 power of fish ; Mr. Stoddart's rule for playing ; grilse ; baggits ; how to use 

 the gaff; how to kill your fish 457-467 



SEA FISHING. 



List of game sea-fish. Weak fish; tackle, baits, and places for; king fish; 

 tackle, baits, and places for; black fish; tackle, baits, and places for; 

 sheep's-head; tackle, baits, and places for ; blue fish; sailing and squidding. 

 Three tables of instruct! on for sea fishing. 468-475 



APPENDIX A. Mullin's New York fowling pieces and prices; table of strength 

 of gun metals 476 



APPENDIX B. Trimble's imported duck guns, Baltimore. . . . 478 

 APPENDIX C. Apparatus for artificial fly making 479 



