INDEX 



373 



Mayfly, The, 121 



Drying the, 127 

 Gray Drake, 122, 131 

 Mr. Green's pattern, 126 

 Spent Gnat, 125, 131 

 Transportation of, 1 1 1 



Mayflies, Patterns of, 130, 131 

 varieties of patterns, 

 126 



Messengers (salmon fishing), 304 



' Much ado about nothing,' 214 



N. 

 Nets, Landing, 76 



Long Staff for, 77 



Materials for, 78 



Shape of, 76, 78 



Short-handled,77 



O. 



Obstructions (salmon rivers), 258 

 Olive Dun, The, as a grayling 



fly, 249 

 Order and disorder, 197 



P. 



Parr, The, 274 



Patience under difficulties, 60 

 Plausible pollution, 26 

 Playing a fish, 228, 316 

 Pliers-cutting, Use of, 62 

 Pollution of Hampshire Wey, 10 

 ., Rivers, 25 



Act, 1876, 25 



Inactivity 



regarding, 26 



Pollution of Rivers, Salmon, 257 

 Pool, Fishing a, 312 

 Potted fish (salmon fishing), 290 



Q. 

 Quiet way of doing things, 216 



R. 



Ramsbottom, Mr. (Manchester), 



Red-deer suet, Use of, 70 



Caution 



regarding, 70 

 Reel, A, gone wrong, 61 

 To take to pieces, 66 



Rivers, Alteration of, by floods, 



284 



Rocky rivers and small trout, 18 

 Rods, Trout, 41 



Binding when bro- 



ken, 59 



Cane, 44 



,, Castle-Connell, 54 



Fittings of, 56 



Ferruling, 56 



Foster's, Mr., steel- 



centred, 51 

 Length of, 53 



,, Material and work- 



manship, 43 

 rings, 57 

 Selection of, 49 



Shape of, 48 

 spears, 58 



Spliced v. ferruled, 



54 



St. Lucas, 52 



,, Wear and tear of, 47 



S. 

 Salmon, Carrying, 319 



casts, gut, Damping- 

 box for, 299 

 fly, Action of, 306 

 box, 303 



How to fasten, 300 

 Parts of, 322 



,, Placing a, 309 



flies, Hints on making, 



flies, List of useful, 324 

 life, 259 



Necessity of fishing 

 down streams for, 308 

 Playing a, 316 

 rivers, Care of, 276 

 Pollution of, 257 



Weed-cuttin-g on, 



280 [311 



rod, How to hold, 308, 

 Working a, 309 



rods, 293 

 Rings for, 296 



Spliced, 296 



Speed of when ascend- 

 ing rivers, 271 



