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INDEX 



5 'Paternoster," an early form 



of, 116 



mentioned, 185, 194 

 Peas, green, as bait, 199 

 Pepys, S., describes use of 



catgut for lines, 119 

 Perch, Dennys' direction for 



taking, 53 

 Perch-fishing, 198 

 Pickerel, 40 



a two-year-old pike, 164 

 Piers of Fulham, on fishing, 3 

 Pies, Mascall's method of 



taking, 27 

 Pike, mention of, 4 

 bait for, 19 



rapid growth of, 34, 133 

 Dennys' directions for taking, 



angling for, described by M. 



Brown, 60 

 unsportsmanlike method of 



taking, 87 

 names for, according to age, 



164 



record, 201, 202, 219, 220 

 voracity of, 202, 208 

 live-baiting for, 223 

 Pliny, on fish, viii 



on the breeding of eels, 36 

 Pleasures of Princes, by Mark- 

 ham, 61, 69, 70 

 Plumb, mention of, 

 Plummet mentioned by Dennys, 



58 



Poachers, father of, 79 

 Poaching deprecated in the 



Treaty se, 21 

 by Mascall, 28 

 with dog, 187 

 Polypody, 67, 68 

 Ponds, Taverner's description 



of, 32 

 Portuguese soldiers, alleged 



cowardice of, 191 

 Pouch-hook, 136 

 Prawn as bait, 197 



Profit and Pleasure United, 142, 



150 

 Pucklechurch, the birthplace (?) 



of Dennys, 43 



RABBIT'S fat as bait, 67 

 Raking, to induce biting in 



gudgeon, 49, 50 

 Rathke on the ovaries of the 



eel, 38 



Red-eye, 199 

 Red-fly, 65, 66, 209 

 Red-palmer, 84 

 Red-snail, 17, 1 8 

 Red-spinner, 211 

 Red- worm, 17, 18, 19, 40 

 Rhodes, H., presumed author 



of School of Recreation, 142 

 Rings first fitted to rods, 162 

 Riverside Natural History 



quoted, 37 

 Roach, mention of, 4 



Dennys' directions for taking, 



50 



as bait, 19 



their breeding in ponds, 40 

 fishing, unsportsmanlike 



method of, 166 

 Rock-fishing, 192 



fish taken in, 193 

 Rod, of many pieces, described 



by Markham, 63 

 top joint of, 8 1 

 length of, 86, 90 

 ring for trolling, 86 

 holding spike for, 161 

 Rods, relative merit of cane and 



hazel, 46, 114 

 stain for, 64 

 jointed, 77 

 to be purchased, 70 

 furnished with running rings, 



162 

 Roe, salmon, as bait, 79, 92, 



109, no 



Rudd, in ponds, 40 

 mentioned, 199 



