Indiex to Life Histoet. 



451 



Old time rods, 146. 



Origin of black bass fishing, 190. 



of Kentucky reel, 189. 



of split-bamboo rod, 134. 

 Palmers, 246. 

 Pants, wading, 299. 

 Parting words, 441. 

 Phantom minnows, 265. 

 Phillippe, Samuel, portrait of, 135. 

 Philosophy of angling, 307. 

 Pigment cells, 55, 56, 62. 

 Pilot, 263. 

 Playing a bass, 273. 

 Pond culture, 79. 

 Portrait of B C. Milam, 199. 



of B. F. Meek, 198. 



of Samuel Phillippe, 135. 



of J. L. Sage, 202. 

 Pot-fishers, 426. 

 Pot-hunters, 426. 

 Potomac river, stocking of, 69. 



Baltimore American on, 72. 



Edw. Stabler on, 71. 



John Eoff on, 70. 



W. W. Shriver on, 70. 

 Preserved minnows, 271. 

 Range of black bass, 46, 64. 

 Eedditch scale for hooks, 239. 

 Reel, care of, 437. 

 Keels, 174, 183, 185; 



click, 176. 



drag-handle, 188. 



epicycloidal, 201. 



Kentucky, origin of, 183. 



level-winding, 187. 



wooden spool, 201. 

 Keel cases, 300. 

 Reminiscence, a,, 380. 

 Retrospection, a, 416. 

 Rigging the east, 363, 364. 

 Rings, clearing, 294. 

 Rod, care of, 434, 436. 



jointing and unjointing, 435. 

 Rod cases, 300. 

 Rods, 127. 



ash and lancewood, 151. 



bait, 14.5. 



bethabara, 155 



cedar, 128. 



Rods — Continued. 



coming bass rod, 148. 



fly, 167. 



frog-casting, 165. 



Henshall, 132, 134. 



improvements in, 131. 



little giant, 163. 



materials for, 128, 129, 130. 



mountings, 161, 164. 



old time, 146. 



steel, 166. 



typical, 149. 

 Rubber boots, 299. 

 Rules for flies, ,245. 

 Sage, J. L., portrait of, 202. 

 Screwdriver and knife, 297. 

 Shoes, wading, 299. 

 Shrimps, 275. 

 Sight, sense of, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98. 



99, 100. 

 Silk lines, 205, 206. 

 Silk- worm gut, 216. 



native, 217, 218. 

 Single-hook spoons, 261, 262, 263, 



264. 

 Sinkers, 290, 291. 

 Skittering, 428. 



tackle and instructions, 429. 

 Sleep, do fishes? 110. 

 Slings, baskets, 281. 

 Smell, sense of, 109. 

 Snelling hooks, 240. 

 Snells, 224. 



gut, 224. 



gimp, 224. 

 Snoods, 224. 



Snyder, George, inventor of Ken- 

 tucky reel, 191. 



his gaff-hook, 204. 

 Spawning, 74. 



in Florida, 77. 



in Ohio, 77. 

 Specific differences, 45. 



Fred Mather on, 49. 



in Arkansas, 45. 



in color, 46, 47. 



in fins, 47, 48. 



in Florida, 45. 



in mouth, 48. 



in scales, 48. 



