GENERAL IXDEX. 



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,ing angler, 329. 

 A great haul, 187,188. 

 A perch eats its own eye, 144. 

 Aberdeen hooks, 28. 

 Abundance of trout, 66. 

 Abstinence of the pike, 120. 

 Abundance of salmon in Scotland and 



America, 52. 



Adonis of the sea, 311,386. 

 American flies, 62, 99; hooke, 29 ; how to 



make them, 109-114; reel?, 24, 85; 



rods, 22, 23. 



Angling and temperance. 14. 

 Anglers' dress, 50 ; health. 51 ; souvenir, 



playing the salmon, 59, 60. 

 Angling like mathematics, 46. 

 Ancient instructions for taking pike, 115. 

 Angling for sunfi>h, 150. 

 Anecdote on angling, 49; of the redfish, 



336 ; where to catch sheepshead, 199. 

 Appeal to anglers, 229-234. 

 Apostles, fishermen, 18. 

 Artificial flies for trout, 47, 99-106, 330; 



for salmon, 61 ; for minnows, 88. 

 Aristotle and Ansonius on the perch, 149. 

 A bright particular star, 368. 

 Abundance of fi.sh, 403. 415. 

 Accomplished angler. 369. 

 Advantages of fl*h-cultnre, 404. 

 A fish with a tail 1 378, 380. 

 A new idea about the cisco, 303, note. 

 A fish-chowder, 407. 

 Affrighted sportsmen, 380. 

 A <:reat acquisition. 374. 

 Albany beef, 389. 



Ainsworth, W. H., on fish-culture, 403. 

 A great problem solved, 404. 

 American method of cooking eels, 408. 

 Amusement for the ladies, 394, 395. 

 Appetizer for a whale, 382. 



Bacon and Byron's objections, 47. 



Bait-net. 33. 



Baits ueed in angling, 34, 35. 



Bait, salmon-roe, 40; spoon, 250. 



Baits made with pastes. 41. 



Bait for trout. 73, 90, 231; lake-trout, 

 65 ; pickerel, 122 ; striped ba- 

 169. 238; salmon, 57, 58, 61; sea 

 basse. 215; black hasse, 190, 192; 

 bhiefish. 211; blackflsh, 17; 

 BnflVo. 314 : smieteagae. 172: perch, 

 fish, 150; kingfish. 



176, 272 : carp, 156 ; pheepshead, 198, 

 211 : cod and torn-cod. 204, 205 : floun- 

 ders, 208: chub, 219; eels, 278, 218; 

 catfish, 285, 307, 308; redfish, 2:36; 

 dolphin, 290; smelt, 248; bergall, etc., 

 215; hake, 282: pike-perch, 297; mack- 

 erel, 312; Mackinaw salmon, 241; 

 black trout, 309 ; suckers, 320, 321 ; 

 porgy, 215; muskellonge, 304. 

 Bank-trolling for pike. 135. 

 Barker, methods of cooking trout, 96, 97 ; 

 poetical description of trout-flies, 

 98,99. 

 Berners's, Juliana, first book on angline, 



13 ; how to take pike. 115. 

 Best silkworm gut, 31, 258. 

 ' Basse, striped, trolling, 237. 

 Best time for angling, 48, 49. 

 Basse, black. 190-194 ; sea, 214 ; striped, 



159.245; green, 298. 

 Blackfish or tautos, 176. 

 , Black-basse angling in the Niaeara, 190; 

 in Michigan, 298-302 ; in Lake George, 

 193. 



Black gnat, a good fly, 102. 

 Basse, a Dutch word. 160. 

 Blackfish angling in Suffolk County. 2.S4, 



255,256. 



> Beware of his jaws, 137. 

 | Black trout. 309. 



! Beauty of the trout, 73: of the salmon. 56. 

 I Bush-fishing for trout, 81. 

 , Baiting with the minnow, 87. 

 Bottom or worm-fishing, 89. 

 Bottling flies, 90. 

 Beware of poor hooks, 26. 

 Blue dun-fly. 101. 

 Best dish of stewed fish, 96. 

 Bait for pike. 122. 

 Beautiful colors of the pike, 120. 

 Bottom tackle for pike. 126. 

 , BluenVh, tackle for. 211. 

 ; Blackflsh. where to find him, 181. 

 Brown basse, 69. 

 Bob-flshingforeels, 279. 

 I Brookes on angling, 19. 

 I Elaine on worms, 34: on caution, 93: on 

 the pike, 123-126; on snap-angling, 

 129 : on taking carp. 152. 

 Black Tom for kingfish. 175. 

 Blaine's night-flies, 105, 106. 

 Bull-head. 219. 

 Bream-Touch, etc., 219. 

 Black sucker, 322. 



