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INDEX 



Bleak, bait for, 19 



mentioned by Dennys, 53, 54 

 Blome, R., his Gentleman's 



Recreation, 143 

 copied by J. Smith, 153 

 Blood, used to make bait 



attractive, 20 

 as bait, 50, 67 

 Blood-worms as bait, 53 

 Bob, 17 



Bobbing for eels, 29 

 Booke of Fishing with Hookc 



and Line, by L. Mascall, 23 

 Boom for carp-fishing, 166 

 " Bottlin," 92 

 Bowlker, C., editor of the Art 



of Angling, 216 

 Bowlker, R., his Art of Angling 



Improved, 206 ; second 



edition, 216 

 Bow-net, 40 

 Boyle, Sir C., on bait for pike, 



114 

 Bracmeal in Shropshire, the 



birthplace of T. Barker, 80 

 Brandling, 89 

 Bread, brown, as bait, 18 

 Bream, bait for, 39 

 Bream-fishing, 166 

 Brewer's grains as ground-bait, 



85 

 Bristle whipped to hook as 



check, 130 

 Britannia's Pastorals, by W. 



Brown, 60 

 British Angler, 203 

 Brookes, R., his Art of Angling, 



196 

 Brown, W., his Britannia's 



Pastorals, 60 

 Browne, M., his editions of 



Walton, 93 



Browne, Moses, on angling, 218 

 Bumble-bee, 18 

 Burbot, restocking with, 28 

 Burgoin, Sir R., 147 

 Burning the water, viii, no 



Burton's Anatomy quoted, ix 

 " Bushing " for trout, 76 



CADDIS-FLY, 209, 211 

 Cairncross, D., on the origin of 



eels, 37 

 Cane rod preferred by Venables, 



114 



Canker as bait, 17 

 Carp, rare in England when the 



Treaty 'se was written, 18 

 alleged introduction of, into 



England, 24 

 first record of teeth in throat 



of, 32 



bait for, 39 

 Dennys' directions for taking, 



fishing for, 143 

 advice on, 152 

 great take of, 157 

 killed by toads, 165 

 holding to weeds, 195 

 Casting down-stream, 83 

 Casting-nets, 31 

 Casts of catgut, Indian-grass, 



and hair, 159 

 Catches, record, 201, 202 

 Catgut lines, 119, 159 

 Cat's fat, 67 

 Censura Liter aria, by Hasle- 



wood, 219 



Ccrtaine experiments concerning 

 fish and fruite, by J. Taver- 

 ner, 31 

 Charr, Welsh, or Torgoch, 



mentioned, 119 

 Cheap and Good Husbandry, 68, 



69 



Cheese as bait, 18, 67 

 Cheney, A. N., an American 



angler, 224 

 Cherries as bait, 67 

 Chetham, J., on the merits of 



tar, loo 



his Angler's Vade - Mecum, 

 127 



