INDEX. 



Acetone, 60-62. 



Action of fly-rods, 153. 



Adjusting rods. (See Rod-mak- 

 ing.) 



Age of trout, 420, 423. 



Aluminum bronze, 147. 

 reels, 146. 



Anatomy of eye of fish, 384. 



Apparatus for testing strength 

 of trout, 136. 



Appearance of flies in water, 40. 



Artificial leathers, 62. 



Ash and lancewood rods, 169. 



Automatic reels, 145. 



B. 



Bamboo as a rod material, 161. 

 burns upon, 164. 

 gluing, 178, 270, 273, 300. 

 how to order, 165. 

 planing, 271, 275. 

 quality of, 166. 

 repair of, 167, 168. 

 rods, selection of, 167. 

 selection of, 276. 

 splicing, 305. 

 splitting, 266. 

 testing, 279. 

 tips, 265. 



to make four - strand rod, 

 266. 



Bamboo, to make six-strand rod, 

 275. 



Beef wood, 186. 



Bethabara, 181. 



Black Dose, 369, 375. 



Black Fairy fly, 39, 41. 



Blacking brass, 245. 

 copper alloys, 245. 



Bois d'Arc (bodock), 188. 



Breaking of rods, its cause, 159. 



Breaks, to repair. (See Re- 

 pairs.) 



Brown mallard wings, 42. 



C. 



Calcutta bamboo. (See Bam- 

 boo.) 



Case for rods, 249, 413. 

 Casting the fly, 318. 



back cast, 325, 330, 339, 



340. 



cast to be noiseless, 330. 

 cautions to beginners, 344. 

 how to learn, 318. 

 length of, usual, 214, 331. 

 long-distance casting, 66, 69, 



71, 155, 214, 332. 

 maximum fishing cast, 342. 

 not all of fly fishing, 339, 



340. 



position of body and unem- 

 ployed arm, 324. 

 position of elbow, 320. 



