INDEX. 



A. 



Action of salmon-rods, 31, 144. 

 Advertising for salmon-fishing, 13. 

 American salmon-rivers, 10. 

 Appearance of flies to salmon, 94- 



99. 

 Attendants (Guides), 8, 66. 



B. 



Balance of salmon-rods, 31. 

 Bank-fishing, 130, 146. 

 Black-flies. 81. 

 Boats, 75. 

 Braided leaders, 60. 



C. 

 Canadian salmon-rivers, list of, 

 18-20. 

 map of .follows p. 24. 

 Canoe, fishing from, 136, 154. 

 Canoes, 75. 

 Caprice in salmon, 90. 

 Cast, longest recorded, 140. 

 Cast, the switch, 121. 

 Casting the fly, 115. 

 theory of, 26. 

 Casting, effect of current on, 29, 

 133. 

 right- and left handed, 119, 



137. 

 ■where to cast, 138, 148. 

 Choice of flies, 99-103. 

 of gaff, 70. . 

 of hooks, 105. 



Choice of leaders, 55. 



of lines, 50. 



of reels, 45. 



of rings and guides, 43. 



of salmon- gut, 55. 



of salmon rod, 31, 44, 144. 

 Click of salmon reels, 47, 49. 

 Clothing, for fishing, 79. 



water-proof, 80, 81 

 Coats, rubher, 80. 

 Color of leaders, 63. 

 Construction of gaff, 70. 

 Cost of salmon-fishing, 7, 15. 



of salmon lines, 51. 



D. 



Depletion of salmon rivers, 9, 18. 

 Distance to be cast. 26, 140. 

 Dra^s on salmon reels, 49. 

 Dyemg leaders, 63. 



E. 



Elasticity and stiffness of rods, 

 34, 36. 



English rods, 41. 



Experiments on appearance of ar- 

 tificial flies, 92-99. 



Eyed fish-hooks, 111. 



P. 

 Ferruled m. spliced rods, 33. 

 Fen-ules for rods, 38. 



treatment of, in use, 44. 

 Pish, caprice in, 90. 



