INDEX. 



203 



Leads, 59, 93, 133, 135, 164 



Leger, 131 



Leger-leads, 135 



Ligger, 138 



Lines, 51, 165 ; drying, 56 ; 



waterproofing, 53 

 Live-bait, 76, 89, 95, 123, 124, 



135 



Loch Tay, 86 

 Luce, I, 6, 7 

 Lucit, I 

 Lucius, 4 



*' Magnet " spinner, 165 

 Man, eaten by pike, 14 

 Manley, Rev. J. J., quoted, IO, 



137, 152 



Man o' war trimmers, 139 



" Marston " dead-bait snap- 

 tackle, 105 



Mascalonge, 3, 4 ; culture of, 5 



Microptertis, 182 



4 'New "reel, 48 

 Newnham, quoted, 33 

 Nobbes, quoted, 108, 137 

 "Nottingham" reel, 46 

 Nottingham style, 72 



Odiham, 187 

 Oligorus, 183 



Ova, of perch, 148 ; of pike, 6, 

 7 



Paintings of fish, 143 



Pairing, of perch, 183 ; of pike, 



7, 100 



Paternoster, 125, 159 

 Paternostering, 128, 159 

 Pennant, quoted, 148, 177 

 Pennell, H. C., quoted, 8, 19, 



62, 95, no, 118, 151, 152 

 Pennell's gorge-bait tackle, 1 10 ; 



live-bait snap-tackle, 94 ; 



perch-flight, 166 

 Perca, 145, 172 

 Perca-zander, 174, 175 

 Perch, 145 ; angling for, 159 ; 



allies of, 173 ; as bait, 139, 



152; as food, 156; cooking, 

 157 ; courage, 148, 153 ; food 

 of, 146, 154 ; haunts of, 147 ; 

 intelligence, 153, 162, 163 ; 

 rarely found in heraldry, 155 ; 

 ova, 148 ; packing live, 1 54 ; 

 pairing, 183 ; size, 147, 148 ; 

 spawning, 142, 147 ; vitality, 



154 



"Phantom" baits, 85 



Pickerel, i, 3, 4 



Pike, I ; age, 26 ; American, 

 3 ; angling for, 38 ; as food, 7, 

 31, 35 ; as vermin, 107 ; au- 

 thentic weights, 20 ; brain, 

 34 ; British, I, 5 ; cannibals, 

 II ; colours varying, 2, 5 ; 

 cooking, 37 ; culture of, 5 ; 

 dappled, 6 ; duel between, 

 25; food of, 10, ii, 13; 

 German, 6 ; gratitude of, 35 ; 

 growth, 7, 8, 9, 26 ; in anti- 

 quity, 7 ; in middle ages, 6, 7, 

 31 ; intelligence, 34 ; kept in 

 carp ponds, 32 ; lies about, 

 17, 19 ; maturity, 25 ; migrat- 

 ing, 33; ova > 6, 7; pairing, 

 7, loo ; pugnacity, 14, 29 ; 

 spawning, 7, 8, 142 ; species, 

 3 ; speckled, 6 ; surgical opera- 

 tion on, 35 ; taking bait, 113 ; 

 tame, 35 ; trophies, 143 ; 

 voracity, II, 15 ; watch found 

 in, 14 ; weight ideal, of, 23 



Pike-gag, 119 



Pike-perch, 173; as food, 173, 



174 



" Piscator," quoted, 9 

 Pity, none for a pike, 113 

 Pliny, quoted, 7 

 Plugging, 158 

 Pope, A., quoted, 145 

 Pope, 157 



" Redspinner," see Senior 



Reels, 46, 89 



"Reversible helix," spinning 



bait, 8 1 

 " Reversible tail," spinning 



bait, 82 



Rods, 39, 126, 159 

 Rolfe, H. L., paintings by, 143 



