GENERAL INDEX. 



427 



Pike, the, 115-139; a universal fish, 

 115 ; sold for the price of two lambs, 

 115; eating pike, 118; trolling for, 

 135 ; time for pouching the bait. 136 ; 

 of the MisM-sippi River, !& 

 Yittatus. 138 ; how to cook, 139. 



Piccauau. l.'K 



parties' excursion for cod, 204, 

 205. 



Poor Johns, 282 ; poor rich men, 18. 

 Koutre. 235, 236. 



Poetry, love of UlgUng, 229 ; on the 

 trout. 66. 94. 108: on the salmon, 53 : 

 on the dolphin. 289; ou angling, 14, 

 15 : on the fly. 330 ; on the angler, 19 ; 

 Dr. Wolcott's, 223 : on the bonito, 

 on the Cisco, 361; on the gray- 

 ling, 368 ; on the grouper, 346 ; on the 

 poinpauo. 348 ; on the Spanish mack- 

 erel, 378 ; on the white fish, 358, 359 ; 

 ou the White Lake Creek, 342, 412. 



Porgy-fishing, 214, 215. 



-e harpooned, 214. 



Place? for taking squeteagne, 172. 



Physicians' prescriptions, 51. 



Prolific perch. 143. 



Proper rod for tau tog-fishing, 183. 



Protection of the finny race. 



Preface to Part I.. 11 ; to Part II., 227. 



Preservation of lines. 329. 



Professor, the. a good fly, 330. 



Palate -tickler. 377. 378. * 



Palmer. John, on fish-culture, 366. 



Pearl of the Southern waters, 348. 



Perpetuation of the Cisco, 363. 



Pisciculture, 400-406. 



Playing the sting-ray, 379, 380. 



Pompano, the, 348. 



Prawns of the South, 374. 



Price of the mullet, 349 ; of the pom- 

 pano. 349. 



Prof. Milner on the grayling, 372. 



Quality of rods. 22; lines. 25; hooks, 29. 27. 

 Quantity of smelts taken in one day, 248 ; 

 of mackerel, 311 ; of basse. 163. 



Rapacity of the pike. 118. 



Rapid growth of the pike. 119. 



Reels, described. 24 : the click, for trout 

 and perch, 75; ba*se, salmon, pike, 

 etc, 57, 171 : improvement in, 44. 



Redfish or spotted basse, 235 ; anecdote 

 of. 236. 



Red-fly for trout, 330. 



Red-horse. 322. 



Renme's method of making the Palmer 

 fly. 111. 



Requisite tackle for taking the carp. 155. 



Ring, the clearing, 33, 202. 



Roe. salmon, for bait, 40. 



Ronconkama pond. 141. 



Rods, variety of, 21 ; for pike, basse, sal- 

 mon, 22; for trout, 23; general. 23 ; 

 for fly-fishing. 75; for pike, 124: 

 for striped basse. 164 ; for salmon, 57. 



Rusty Dab. th 



Ray. the stine, 378: the family. 398. 

 f the striped basse, 412. 



Hemy and GShin. the fish-culturists, 401. 



Recipe for dressing a saiad, 409. 



Restocking rivers in England and Scot- 

 land, 402. 

 Red snapper, the, 344. 



julatiug Lakes Erie and Michigan, 



Richardson's grayling, 369. 

 Robin, the, 355. 

 Rock- basse of the lakes, 366. 

 Rod for surf-fishing for basse, 383. 

 Roosevelt, R. Ii., on hatching shad, 403 ; 

 on the sturgeon, 390. 



Salmon, the, 52-63 ; bait-fishintr for, 57 ; 

 fly-fishing for, 58 ; worm-fishing for, 

 58; flies for taking. 61, 62; spearing, 

 62; known to the early Romans, 52; 

 on the Hudson and Connecticut. 53; 

 on the Sacramento, 293 ; time of 

 spawning, 54 ; size and weight of, 

 55; sport, Sir Walter Scott's opinion 

 of, 56; spawn, how to preserve, 40. 



Salmo Hucho, 70. 



Salt-water fish transferred to fresh water, 

 266: sheepshead and fresh com- 

 pared, 200, 201 . 



Salter on caution, 49 : on drawing in the 

 pike, 137; on the gray ling, 373. 



Sea-basse and porgy, 214 . 



Separate rode for each kind of fishing, 23. 



Sinkers, description of, 29, 30 ; improved 

 swivel, 30. 



Shot, split, 30. 



Shiner for bait, 286. 295. 



Shrimp, bait for basse and squeteague, 

 35. 172. 



Shad-roe a bait for basse. 166. 



Shoemaker, the, 322. 



Soft-shell clam for tautog, 35; for basse, 



Solitary habits of the pike, 119. 



Silkworm sut, 31, 258. 



Silver trout, 66; perch, 142. 



Spearing eels. 280. 



Spoon-bait, 250, 251, 236. 



Spring snap hooks. 262. 



Spearing striped basse, 169. 



Splicing rods, 325. 



Squid, the, 238, 239. 



Squeteague, 170 to 173 ; where found, 172. 



Slow growth of the perch. 143. 



Smithes pike story, 117; on the abun- 

 dance of salmon, 52; on Salmo Hu- 

 cho, 70; on the hearing of fishes, 49 ; 

 on sea-trout. 68, 69 ; on the siriped 

 basse, 160. 



Snaring suckers, 320. 

 ! Sportsmanship in worm-fishing, 92. 



Splendid leaps of the black basse. 193. 



Smelt, the, 247-249; experiment at 



Jamaica Pond, 249. 

 1 Snap-bait, 131 . 



Sucker, the, 319-323 ; horned, 320 ; Onei- 

 da, 320 ; mullet, 321 : red-hor-e. 321 ; 

 black. 322 ; Kentucky, etc. 3-22. 



Street, poetry on the trout, 68. 



Striped-basse angling on Louj Island 

 Sound, 245. 



Stone-fly in windy weather. 102. 



Sheepshead, 195 - 202 : fresh-water, 200 ; 

 where found, 197, 198 ; anecdote, 199 ; 

 his jewels, 201. 



