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INDEX 



Grayling, Virtues of, 249 

 Greenheart, 42 

 Green Inn, The (Lochleven), 24 

 Gut, knot, How to, 73 



Manufacture of, 71 



Salmon, 298 



casting lines, 298 



Selection of, 73 



Soaking of, 74, 299 



Staining, 299 



tips, 299 



Trout, 70 



Varieties of, 71 



H. 



Hands, Value of good, 230 

 Hickory, 44 

 'Homes without Hands '(Quota 



tions), 102 



Hook, How to extract, 62 

 Hooks, Bad batch of, 88 

 Double, 321 

 Pennell (Salmon), 322 

 (Trout), 89 



Salmon, gut loops anc 



metal eyes, 320 

 Trout, 84 

 Bend of, 86 



Good, require- 



ments of, 84 



lightness essential, 



Shape of, 85 [88 



Size of, 92 



)> strength neces- 



sary, 87 

 eyed, advantages 



of, 90 



Trout, eyed, disadvan- 

 tages of, 90 



Trout, eyed, Hall's pat- 

 tern v. Pennell's, 91 

 Trout, eyed, How to tie 



on, 91 

 Trout, eyed, Prejudices 



against, 92 



Trout, eyed, recom- 

 mended by Wade, 90 

 Trout, eyed, shape of 



eye, 91 



Trout, eyed, v. hooks 

 tied on gut, 89 



Horsehair casts, 73 

 Humility, The virtue of, 219 



I. 



Improving a river, 279 

 Inland Fisheries Act, 12 



Kirby and Spence (quotations), 



112, 113 

 Knots in gut, Cutting out, 75 



L. 



Landing a fish, 231 

 Larval period, Duration of, HI 

 Law of retaliation, 252 

 Line, broken, How to splice, 61 

 Length of, to be used, 312 

 salmon, Casting with, 310 

 Picking of the 



water, 310 

 Slack, 203 



Use of, 203, 210,311 

 winder, Farlow's patent, 69 

 Lines, drying after use, 69 

 Eaton and Deller's patent 



trout, 67 



Long v. short, 226 

 new, To uncoil, 69 

 Salmon, 297 

 Silk and hair, 68 

 Tapered, 68 

 Trout, 66 

 -ocal nomenclature, 274 

 Loch, How to fish a, 237 

 fishing, 234 

 j ,, Dangers of, 249 



Flies suitable for, 



242 



Lochleven, Months best for fish- 

 ing on, 241 



Reminiscences of,235 

 trout, Fighting quali- 

 ties of, 239 



Loch trout, Feeding grounds of, 

 240 



M. 



Mackintosh coat and square, 83 

 Materials, Good, necessary for 

 fly-tying, 197 



