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INDEX 



in the middle for, 296 ; Loach a 



good bait for, ib. 

 Trout, Wandle variety of, 90. 

 Trout-lice, description of, 83. 

 Trouts have a favourite stone to 



lie near in a river, 259, note. 

 Turkey-fly, 278. 

 Turtle-dove, common mistake about, 



60, note. 



Tweed river, 201. 

 Tyne river, 201. 



Umber, or Grayling, observations 

 on, 122 ; how to fish for, 123 ; 

 haunts of, and baits for, 123, 

 note ; when in season, 268. 



Varro, M. Terentius, his aviary, 



46; fish, 51. 

 Violet dun-fly, 310. 

 Violet-fly, 277. 



Walking-bait, 135. 



Waller, Ed. lines of, 182. 



Walton, Izaak, the life of, 1 ; his 

 character, 1 1 ; conversation with 

 Fuller, 13 ; intimacy with many 

 eminent men, 20 ; death, 23 ; 

 epitaph, ib. ; family, ib. ; will, 

 27 ; his letter to Cotton, 238 ; 

 adopted Cotton for his son, ib. 

 note. 



Walton, Mrs, account of, 3; her 

 epitaph, 4. 



Wasp-fly, 105, 285. 



Water, the element of, commended, 

 49. 



Wharton, Dr, 51. 



Whirling dun-fly, 277 ; little, ib. 

 note. 



White dun-fly, 285. 



White gnat, 279. 



White hackle, 286. 



White miller, or owl-fly, 284. 



Whitish dun-fly, 275. 



Whitterish-fly, 314. 



Whole Duty of Man, authorship of 

 22, note. 



Weirs, or kidels, 185, note. 



Wind, observations on the best for 

 fishing, 109. 



Windy day best for fly-fishin<r, 105. 



Withy-fly, 311, 



Worms, "divers kinds of, 95 ; how- 

 to keep, 96 ; method of making 

 them rise, 97 ; cadis, 193 ; cock- 

 spur, ib. ; straw, ib. ; how to 

 preserve cadis, ib. note ; how 

 to bait with, 293. 



Wotton, Sir Henry, 4, 5 ; his love 

 of angling, 65 ; his verses on 

 spring, 66 ; verses in praise of 

 angling, from the Reliquiae 

 WottoniancB, 215 ; farewell to 

 the vanities of the world, 216. 



Wye river, in Monmouthshire, 

 when fish in season there, 127, 

 249, note. 



Yellow, or greenish fly, 105. 

 Yellow dun-fly, 277. 

 Yellow may-fly, 284. 

 Yellow miller, or owl-fly, 284. 

 Yellow watchet-fly, 313. 

 Yelvers, the name for young Eels, 

 161. 



THE END. 



EDINBURGH: 

 Printed by ANDREW ^HORTREDE, Thistle Lane, 



