INDEX 



Advantages of the dry fly, 37-43 

 Amadou, 52 



April, 20, 21, 75, 202-207, 256 

 August, 23, 83, 223-227, 273 



B 



Back-handed casts, 124, 131 

 Black water, fishing in, 221 

 Blood-knot, 46-48 



Caddis-flies, 60-62, 267, 270, 389 

 Cast, downstream, 115, 146 



for the loch, 175 



how to make, 90 



length of cast, 49 



underhand, 104, 241 



when to, 153-155 



Casting, against wind, 80, 191, 312 



at the surface, 96 



beyond fast current, 122-126 



into fast current, 128-134 



into the " hang ", 121 

 Cerolene, 45, 53, 54, 94 

 Cocking the fly, 101 

 Creel, 54 



D 



Dapping, 156-162 



Diptera, 63-65 



Downstream cast, 115, 146 



Drag, 97, 116-134 



Dressings of flies, 85-87 



Dropper-fly, 54 



Dry-fly fishing, difficulty of, 29 ; 



downstream, 115, 146 



effects of, 18 



expense of, 28 



failure of, 288 



on lochs, 171-184, 214, 226, 385-288, 



292-294, 299-306 



unprofitable, 25 



Drying the fly, 96 

 Duxoyl, 52 



East wind, 192-198, 220, 133 

 Effects of sunshine, 194, 195, 280 

 Entomology, 55-66 

 Ephemeridae, 57-60] 



Evening rise, 40, 183, 187, 189, 209, 914, atx, Gut, 43 

 250, 300 



Fads of angler, 274 

 Faults, 95, 98, 102, 106 

 Fishing at night, 13 



from a boat, 178 



from bank of loch, 179 



in flooded water, 12, 78 



the stream, 163-170, 242, 281 



Flies, dressings of, 85-87 



floating on foam, 304) 



with detached bodies, 238 

 Flies: 



Badger Hackle, 81, 177, 183, 234 



Black Gnat, 81 



Black Midge, 81, 224, 259, 260 



Black Spider, 76, 80, 83, 220, 276/310, 312 



BlackiSedge, 82, 225 



Blae and Black, 81 



Blue Hen Spider, 77, 183, 221, 259 



Butcher, 171 



Chironomus, 64 



Cinnamon Sedge, 82, 221, 270 



Corncrake Sedge, 82, 221 



Culex, 64 



Diptera, 63-65, 266 



Ephemeridae, 57-60 



Froghopper, 212 



Grannom, 57, 83, 209 



Gravel Bed, 79, 83, 197 



Gray Quill, 79 



Green Drake, 57 



Greenwell Quill, 73, 172, 202, 205, 209, 219, 

 224, 229, 267, 274, 302 



Grouse and Green, 175 



Iron Blue, 62, 76, 197, 204, 209, 213, 220, 

 224, 229, 310 



Life-history of, 57-66 



March Brown, 20, 74, 197, 202, 204 



Medium Olive, 74, 209 



Needles, 63, 84, 225 



Olive Dun, 58, 72, 197, 224, 229, 261, 295 



Pale Olive, 213, 241, 264 



Pale Watery Dun, 78 



Perlidse, 62, 63, 84 



Peter Ross, 175 



Red Quill, 77, 172, 209, 221, 238 



Rough Olive 74, 202, 224, 229, 267, 269, 

 274, 302, 310, 313 



Sand Fly, 79, 83, 197 



Stone Fly, 37, 57, 62, 84, 156 



Trichoptera, 60-62, 82 



Woodcock and Yellow, 289 



Yellow Sally, 84 



Zulu, 175 

 Floataline, 53 

 Floatane, 52 

 Foul-hooked trout, 340, 313 



H 



Halford, F. M., 81 

 Hatch over-abundant, 210 

 Hill lochs, 222 

 Hooks, 5oj 



Intentional drag, 132 

 Islay, 171 



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