INDEX 



A. 



Alternative, An, 227 

 Amateur at work, An, 288 

 Angling competitions, The nuis- 

 ance of, 239 



B. 



Bags, fishing, Plan for, 79 

 v. Baskets, 79 

 Freke fishing, 80 



Banks not to be shaken, 217 



Beds, Chalk and gravel, 6 

 spawning, Care of, 9 



Beginners, Advice to, on fly- 

 tying, 193 



Bends, Kirby and Limerick, 86 



Blow-line, The, 128 



Blue Mahoe, 44 



Brogues, 82 



Butt, Mr. (taxidermist), 33 



C. 



Cast taper, How to make, 72 



Where to, 213 

 Casting dead against wind, 208 

 horizontally, 204 

 in windy weather, 206 

 Overhead and steeple, 



203 

 Utility of changing mode 



of, 209 



,, with a cross wind, 209 

 with a dry-fly, 221, 223 

 with a salmon-rod, 309 

 Castle keys, The (Lochleven), 

 236 [299 



Casts, gut, Damping box for, 74, 



Horsehair, 73 

 Change of tactics, A, 227 



Colour, Sensitiveness of fish to, 6 

 Coming and refusing, 314 



taking, 316 

 Convert, A, 221 

 Coppersmith and tinsmith, The, 



223 

 Currell, Mr. G., 56, 192 



D. 



Day of woe, A, 222 

 Dead men's shoes, 225 

 Derbyshire bumbles, 253 

 Detached bodies, 142 

 Difficulties, Patience under, 60 



Self help in, 62 



Disappointed anticipations, 15 

 Double-hooked, 232 

 Down stream, How to cast, 217 

 Drifting, 237 

 Dry-fly, why it fails on some 



rivers, 219 

 The use of the, 221,223 



E. 

 East wind, An, and its only virtue, 



241 



Ephemera and Trichoptera, 101 

 casting their skins, 



H3 

 Duration of life of, 



in 



The, 102 

 ' Every fish has its angle, 3 218 

 Exceptional day, An, 248 

 Eyeglass for fly-tying, 199 



F. 



Ferruling, 56 



Fish difficult to discern, 7 



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