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Index. 



Pools, fishing in, 108 

 P.oonah, 135, 268, 384, 412 



river, 135 



Poongah, the, a fish, 215 

 Porpoise, killing a, 348 

 Porpoises converse, 85 

 Position of ovaries, 42 



the rod in fly fishing, 127 



Power of jaw in Mahseer, 48 



Mahseer, 9 



Prawn tackle, 254 



Predatory fish affect sick fish, 93 



surprise their prey, 90, 91 



Preparation of Bengal gram, 131, 135 

 Preparedness for first rush of Mahseer, 9 

 Preserved bait in salt preferred, 86 

 Preserving fish by stuffing, 359 



in salt, 86 



in spirits, 86, 362, 363 



Prevention better than cure, 13 

 Prices of rod and tackle, 316 

 Professional diners out, 205 

 Prometheus, 113 

 Propagating Mahseer, 338 

 Proper arrangement, 339 

 Protruding lip of Mahseer, 45 

 Provoking bed-fellows, 345 

 Pseudeutropius garua, or jBatchwa, 222 

 Puddling a stream for Trout, 50 

 Pulliary Pass, 378 

 Pulney Hills, 261, 373 

 Punctuality of estuary fish in feeding, 

 258 



insisted on, 17 



Pupta, 214, 224 

 Puthri, 408 

 Putrid sea water, 245 

 Pykara, 265 



QUETTA, fishing near, 383 

 Quick-sightedness of fish, 97 



RAJAMUNDRI, 385 

 Ramnagur, 411 

 Ramnathpore, 380 

 Raneepore, 406 

 Rapid, shooting a, 153 

 Rasbora daniconius, 26$ 



Rationale of fly fishing for Mahseer, 113 

 Rawal Pindi District, 387 

 Reasons for writing this book, I, 2 

 Receipt for arsenical soap, 361 



cobbler's wax, 305 



fly-maker's wax, 306 



paste bait, 202 



preserving fish in spirits, 362, 363 



Red Perch. See Lutianus roseus. 

 Reel. See Winch. 

 Refraction aids fish to see, 99 



allow for in shooting fish, 227 



Rest for setting rod, 142 



Rewah, 403 



Rhyncobdellidce^ 235 



Riawalla, 406 



Rice fields, bait to be found in, 74 



fry to be reared in, 338 



Richmond spinner, 69 

 Rickeekhasee, 407 

 Rigidifies muscles of mouth, 52 

 Ringol rods should be oiled, 201 

 Rings on rod, 303 



top, 302 

 RIVERS : 



Anjeracundy, 374 



Arson, 410 



Babarie, 404 



Bata Stream, 409 



Bawanny, 370, 372, 373, 376 



Beas, 387 



Betwa, 404, 405 



Beylun, 403, 404 



Beypc 



175 



Bhima, 268 



Burrhampootra, 414 



Camardari, 368 



Cavery, 370, 375-377, 380, 381 



Chenab, 387 



Coleroon, 377 



Cootyaddy, 374 



Cubbany, 375, 380 



Cubbinali, 368 



Dessaun, 404, 405 



Gambar, 387 



Ganges, 51, 407, 408, 410 



Garepiro, 386 



Giri, 387 



