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INDEX. 



"Crocodile" bait, 87 



Cruelty of gorge-baiting, 107 ; 



of plugging, 158 

 Ctenolates, 184, 185 

 Culture of black bass, 178 ; 



mascalonge, 5 



Dagenham Breach, 149 ; lake, 



23 



Daniel, quoted, 19 

 Darenth River, 33 

 Dead-bait, 105, 172 

 " Diamond Jubilee " bait, 83 

 Disgorger, 1 2 1 

 Dogmersfield Lake, 125 

 Dove River, 24 

 Drying lines, 56 

 Ducks, eaten by pike, 12 

 "Duplex" bamboo float, 92; 



floats, 91 



Eel, eaten by pike, 12 

 Eels, as bait, 79 

 Esocidtz, i ; American, 3, 4 

 sox, I, 3 



Fables, 16, 18, 19 



" Facile " lip hooks, 63 



" Farlow's " leads, 60 ; new 



pike float, 90 ; registered 



flights, 63 

 Fence-months, 142 

 Field, Basil, his double bait can, 



97 



Fishery Bill, 142 



"Fishing Gazette " float, 90 



Flies, best for perch, 173 



Flights, 62, 166 



Floats, 90, 1 68 



Float-fishing, 162, 167, 169 



Flying triangles, 62, 65 



Francis Francis, quoted, 73, 86, 

 151, 163 ; repartee to keeper, 

 198 ; tribute to, 190, 196, 197 



" Francis " flight, 64 



Franck, Theophilus, quoted, I 



Franklin, Sir John, quoted, 154 



Frogs as bait, 123 



Frome, River, 24, 74, 103 



Gaff, 117 



Gaffing, 1 1 8, 199 



Gags, 119 



GaK-n, prescribing perch, 156 



Gander, as bait, 137 ; combat 



with pike, 137 

 Gedd, I 



"Glass-eye," 173 

 Glynde, 172 

 Golden perch, 184 

 Goode, Browne, quoted, 180 

 Goose, as bait, 137 

 Gorge-bait, 113 



Gorge-fishing, objections to, 107 

 Gorge-tackle, 106, 109 

 Cry s Its, 181 

 Guard-ring, 44 



Haunts, favourite, of perch, 147 ; 



of pike, 71, 74, 99, 100, 191 

 Hawkins, Sir John, quoted, 18 

 "Helix "baits, 81 

 Heraldry, fish in, 155 

 Hofland, quoted, 19 

 Hog-backed spoon, 165 

 Hooks, 62, 165 



" Interchangeable " tail-bait, 82 

 Inverurie, Lord, 20, 149 

 Ireland, 20, 22, 23, 24, 78, 84 

 Irish clergyman's grace, 88 



Jack, I 



"Jardine," "pectoral spring," 



pike-snap, 95; "perfected," 



snap-tackle, 94 ; pike rod, 41 ; 



reel, 50 ; spiral leger-lead, 



133 



Keene, quoted, 55, 59, 151 

 Kennet, 151 

 Kingsley, Rev. C., 188 

 Knife, 121, 122 

 Knobs, 45 



Labrax, 176 

 Lambeth, 6 

 Lapland, 149 



