INDEX 



431 



Splicing a rod, 129, Plate XXXIV. 

 Stiff wrist, 206 

 Steeple cast, 186 

 Stone fly, 23, 67, 85 

 Livingstone, 98 

 Stoning a salmon pool, 288 

 Stream, fishing the, 15, 20 

 Strike, the, 22, 23 

 Striking a salmon, 298 

 trout, 22, 33, 110 



from reel, 33, 34 

 Success in fishing, 1-4, 133-134, 175, 



209, 308, 344 



Sub-Imago, 12, 14, 48, 63, 4 

 Suir river cast, 334-335 

 Switch cast, 191, 330 



Tanat, 143 



Taut line, 136 



Temperature, 82, 103, 106 



Test, 8, 83 



Testing a rod, 214 



Thumb in the forward cast, 202, 



205, 211 



Thyme, wild, 30 

 Torres Straits, 96 

 Touche, 49 



Tournaments, 221, 224 

 Triangle hooks, 116. 

 Tricoptera, 62-65 

 Trout 



appearance of, 122 



axioms, 134-138 



breeding, 98 



bulging, 82, 130 



casting to a, 137 



close season, 104-106 



colour, 122 



distinction, 122 



domesticated, 98 



enticing to rise, 20 



farms, 97-100 



fighting a, 36 



flies, 71, 125 



fly-fishing, dry, 14, 15, 35, 36, 48 

 wet, 5, 14, 35, 36, 48 

 upstream, 6, 11, 183 



food of, 16, 99 



growth, 103 



handling, 40-42 



hand-lining a, 52-53 



hearing of, 88 



hook, 137 



jumping, 37 



killing, 26, 134 



knots for trout lines, 25, 117-120 



Loch Leven, 20 



missing, 21 



netting a, 25, 27, 136, 137 



Trout (continued) 



non-rising, 49 



playing a, 25 



position of, 20 



putting down, 19-32 



rising short, 21 



scaring, 11-14, 19-21, 32, 93 



season, 106-108 



senses of , 87 



sex, in, 122 



spawning, 105 



spinning for, 112 



takable, 41 



times to fish, 80-83 



undersized, 40-41 



vision of, 12, 88 

 Trouville, 49 



Undersized fish, 40-41 

 Upstream fishing, 6, 7, 11, 110, 111, 

 143 



Vadheim, 47 

 Val Conson, 75 

 Vancouver Island, 48 

 Vecla, 143 

 Vim, 140 

 Violence, 136, 140 

 Vision of trout, 12, 88 

 Vistula, 144 

 Vyrnwy Lake, 27 



Wading, 95, 109, 312 



Walton, Izaak, 139 



Warg, 143 



Water, practising over, 165 



Water-house, Mr. Charles A., 63 



Water insects, 62 



Diptera, 63 



Ephemeridae, 62 



Notonectidae, 63 



Perlidse, 63, 67 



Sialidae, 63, 67 



Trichoptera, 62, 65 

 Water shrimps, 16 

 Weeds, 25, 28, 30, 36, 54, 55, 121, 136 



as dams, 23, 123, 144, Plate XII. 



breeding-places, 123 



shelter, 54, 55, 123 

 Welshman's Button, 66, 80 

 Wet fly fishing, 12, 14, 16, 109, 184 



arrangement of flies, 111 



downstream, 49, 111 



striking, 110 



upstream, 109 

 Wickham, Dr. Chas., 77 

 Wickham, R. T., 76 

 Wickham's Fancy, 77 

 Wind cast, 180 



