INDEX 



Take, time of the, 113, 145 

 Trolling, 192 



method of, 195, 196 



rod for, 193 



tackle for, 193, 194 



time for, 196 

 Trout, age of, 17 



common, 12 



common freshwater, 7 



difficult to catch, 20 



feelings of, 14 



fishing for cunning, 122 



hearing of, 13 



hooking a, 102 



in clear and coloured 

 waters, 57 



in England, 7 



in Scotland, 7 



knowledge of its habits 

 necessary, 109 



playing a, 102 



possessed of memory, 20 



quality of flesh depends on 

 food, 17 



quantity of, 22 



quantity of capture, 201, 

 202 



red and white fleshed, 15 



scarcity of, 27 



season for, 21 



sight of, 14 



size of, 15, 16, 17 



taking out of the water, 103 



time to catch, 146 



when to fish for, 108 



voracious feeder, a, 19 

 Trout-fishing, methods of suc- 

 cessful, 203-207 



season for, 121 



time of day for, 120 



Tweed, 19, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 



123, 185 

 Tweedside, 22, 27, 151 



Walton, Izaak, 3, 5, 14, 58 

 on baiting, 6 



Water, best conditions of, for 

 trouting, 116 



Water-cricket, 152 



Whitadder, Eiver, 14, 18 



Wilson, Mr,, on artificial flies, 



70 



on stone-flies, 152 

 Professor, on trout, 14 



Wind, casting against, 107, 108 



Winged fly, 78 



Worm, size of, 134 



Worm-fishing, casting the line, 



137, 138 



how carried out, 136 

 illustration of tackle, 128 

 in flooded waters, 147, 148 

 in hill-burns, 149 

 in pools, 140 

 in streams, 141 

 season for, 125, 141, 142, 



146 

 tackle for, 125, 126, 127, 



129, 130, 131 

 time for, 143 

 when to strike, 139 

 where to carry out, 144 



Worms, preparations of, 135 

 quantity required, 136 

 varieties of, 132, 133, 134 



Wotton, Sir Henry, on fly- 

 fishing, 51 



Yarrow, River, 24 

 Younger, John, on trout, 68 



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