INDEX. 



409 



St. BoswelFs Fair, former supply of salmon 



at, 250. 



Stack, Loch, fishing on, 35. 

 Stickleback of Loch Achilty, 160-164. 

 St. Mary's Loch, fishing on, 161, 197, 216. 

 Steam navigation, how it affects the herring 



shoal, 327. Query, Are salmon deterred 



from entering our rivers by it? 

 Stocking of ponds with trout, 321. 

 Stormontfield breeding-ponds, a visit to the, 



72 ; operations on, 366. 

 Strathbran, 165. 

 Strathconon, 153. 

 Success in sea-fishing dependent on fine 



tackle, 343. 



TACKLE for the ferox, 100. 

 Taking of the Salmon, The Song, 72-74. 

 Tay, river, 12, 68, 103 ; Loch Tay, 104. 

 Teith, river, capable of being improved, 109. 

 Tennant, Professor, author of ' Anster Fair,' 



182. 



Tern, the, anecdote of, 388. 

 Teviot, river; 23. 

 Thirlstane in Ettrickdale, 235. 

 Thrieve Castle, 20, 246. 

 Till, river, a resort of the Salmo albus, 79. 

 Tinet burn, 58. 

 Tor Achilty, a nursery of the red-deer, 147- 



149. 



Traditional trout, 117. 

 Trailigill burn, its peculiar breed of trout, 34. 

 Transplantation of fresh-water fishes, 309, 



317, 320. 



Trap for salmon at Drumlanrig, 290. 

 Trio of veteran anglers at St. Mary's, 200. 

 Trolling Song, 120. 

 Troubles, A Peck of Verses, 286. 

 Trout-beck, 233. 

 Trout, diseases incident to, 218 ; transplan 



tation of, 320. 

 Trysting-Tree Song, 294. 

 Tummel, river and loch, 8, 95. 

 Turret, river and loch, 79, 80. 

 Tweed, 22 ; effect of drainage on, 290 ; verses 



to, 280. 

 Tyne, East-Lothian, reminiscences of, 171 ; 



fishing case, 173. 



UNION Canal, trout in the, 140. 

 Urchay, river, 106. 



VENDACE of Lochmaben, 298 ; Vendace 



Club, meeting of the, 306. 

 Vennacher, Loch, 109. 

 Vindication of the use of salmon-roe in 



keeping down the enemies of the salmon, 



384. 



Visitors at St. Mary's cottage, 208. 

 Voice of the Cuckoo Song, 227. 



WADING and its results, 215. 



Wallace, Sir William, 16. 



Water of Leith forty years ago, 135 ; flies 



used on the, 137. 



Wastage on the spawning-beds, 365. 

 Water-Ousel, the, and its habits, 364. 

 Watten, Loch, Caithness, a day's fishing 



on, 41. 



Waverley MSB. used as a wrapper for fishing- 

 tackle, 157. 

 Weasels and their habits, 354 ; a gang of, 



355. 



Wedding at Corscleugh in 1832, 211. 

 ' Weel may the boatie row, ' 337. 

 When Homeward, etc. Song, 66. 

 Wild cats, 40, 147. 

 Wilson, Professor, as an angler, 13, 105, 187, 



194, 229. 

 Wilson, James, F.R.S.E., on trout-flies, 



191. 

 Wilson, John, junr., 203 ; extraordinary 



take of trout by, 131, 401. 

 Wilson, Adam, champion of the Six-Foot 



Club, 134. 



Windermere, 233 ; charr of, 344. 

 Woodcocks, brood of, in July, 344. 

 Wright, James, tackle-maker, Sprouston, 



194. 



YARKOW, river, and its associations, 24, 



197 ; yellow fins of, 203, 217. 

 Young, the late Andrew, 29 ; quotations 



from, 263, 378. 

 Ye Warders of the Waters Song, 277. 



ZOOLOGY of Ross-shire, 147, 353. 



POEMS AND SONGS. 



AN Angler's Ramble, . . PAGE 3-29 

 Eulogistic a Comparison, . . 43 

 The River Nairn a Retrospect, . 49 



Sonnet The Findhorn, . . PAGE 54 

 Song When Homeward, etc., . . 66 

 Sonnet Anglers ye are, etc., . . 71 



