INDEX 



Abbotsf ord, 25 

 Almond, Kiver, 123 

 Anglers, butchery by, 10 



dress, 30, 31, 32 



exaggerations of, 9 



excuses of, 8 



increase of, 26 



Anglers should fish up stream, 58 

 Angling as an exercise, 4 



attractions of, 29 



Byron on, 6 



definition of, 1 



Dr. Johnson's opinion of, 1 



qualifications for, 2 



when to strike, 100 

 Angling the most difficult of all 



field sports, 4 



Art of fly-fishing summed up, 68 

 Artificial flies, practice of using, 

 70 



Baillie, James, x, 54, 89 

 spiders used by, 81 

 Basket-pannier, 48 

 Berwick, 24 

 Biggar Water, 15 

 Blackadder, River, 15 

 Blackwood's Magazine, 23 

 Border Advertiser, 23 

 Bottle for capturing minnows, 



163 



Bowland, 28, 129 

 Burns, 68 



Burns, on trout, 67 

 Byron, Lord, on anglers, 6 



Caddis, 152 

 Case-worm, 152 

 Casting-line, 43 

 Clyde, River, 15 



Cod-bait, 152, 159 

 Creel, 48 

 Creepers, 152, 153 



how to use, 155 



how preserved, 154 



tackle for, 154 



when to use, 156 



Darling, Mr., of Edinburgh, 

 his invention for keeping 

 minnows, 165 



Dee, River, 18 



Drag, The, 168 



Drag-hook for minnow trout- 

 ing, 167 



Drainage, 22, 23 



Dress for anglers, 30, 31, 32 



Earlston, 129 

 Eden, River, 15 

 Encyclopedia Britannica, 152 

 Esk River, 18 



Fishing down stream, 61, 63 

 advantage of, 65 

 Fishing up stream, advantages 

 of, 58, 59, 60, 63 

 difficulty of, 64 

 in small rivers, 63 

 reason for, 66 

 Fishing pocket-book, 49 

 Flies, 71 



casting of, 106, 107 

 making of, 80, 82 

 playing, 61 

 throwing the, 104 

 varieties of, 110, 113, 117 

 Fly, colour of, 74, 75 

 green drake, 73 

 shape of, 73 



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