INDEX 



239 



Veal, fat of, an ingredient of 



ground-bait, 29 

 Venables' Experienced Angler, 



in 

 Venus turpentine, 67 



WALTON cited on spontaneous 



generation, 32 

 Walton and the Earlier Fishing 



Writers, 85 

 Walton, I., his commendation 



of Venables' Experienced 



Angler, 113 



Walton Deeps, barbel at, 201 

 Walton's Compleat Angler, 93 

 Wasp-fly, 21, 66 

 Wasp-grubs as bait, 51, 53 

 Water-fly or may-fly, 75 

 Water-rat, to destroy the, 26 

 Wax, virgin, 67 

 Weather suitable for angling, 



57,58 



Whalebone recommended for 

 tops, 159 



Wheat, simmered, as bait for 



roach and dace, 20 

 as bait, 169 



Wheat-flour, 67 



"Wheele" or winch mentioned, 

 86 



Whip or spring trap, 25 



White, N., compiler of a list of 

 fishing books, 157 



Whiting, rock, and whiting- 

 pollock, 193, 194 



Whitney, J , his Genteel Recrea- 

 tion, 155 



Whole Art of Fishing, 183 

 Whole Art of Husbandry, 69 

 Williamson, J., quoted by M. 



Browne, 99 

 Williamson, J., his British 



Angler, 203 

 Willoughby's Historia Piscium, 



196 

 Winch, earliest mention of, 85 



multiplying, 224, 225 

 Winckhurst, the fish pond at, 



.157 

 "Wind" or winch mentioned, 



86 

 Wind, Barker's indifference to 



direction of, 81 

 Winder, earliest mention of, 47 



Barker's description of, 90 

 Wire for lines, 160 

 Wolwich roach, 4 

 Worming, up-stream, 123 

 Worms, to be scoured in moss, 



5i 



directions for scouring, 82 

 for ground-bait, 119 

 method of scouring, 1 56 



YARRELL on eels travelling 



overland, 38 

 Yellow-fly, 21, 66 

 York, Edmund, Duke of, 8 

 Young Sportsman's Instructor, 



7i 



its author unknown, 72 

 cited, 153, 154,158, 175, 177 

 Young Angler's Instructor, 



source of, 175 



