538 
Shadine, the, 466. 
Sharks, 432. 
Shaw, Mr., of Scotland, 24. 
Sheepshead, 84; angling for, 92. 
Sherry cobbler, 514. 
Shiner, the, 294. 
Shiner, the New York, 428. 
Sierra, cero, or cerus, 134. 
Silk, tinsel, etce., 519. 
Silkworm gut, 519. 
Silure, the, 439, 
Silver or sea trout, 255. 
Sinker, the ponderating, 310. 
Sinkers for sheepshead, 88. 
Siscowet, the, 481. 
Skaneateales Luke, fishes in, 283. 
Sligo salmon-stairs, 415, 
Smell in fishes, 36. 
Smelt, the, 102. 
Smelts, trade in, 340. 
Smoked beef and eggs, 502. 
Smoking salmon, statistics of, 3389. 
Smolt, salmon, 375. 
Smooth hound, the, 432 
Snapper, the red, 453. 
Snedicor’s, Oba., preserve, 158. 
Sole, the common, 431. 
**Songs of the Wilderness,” extract 
from, 234. 
Soups, 512. 
Southern sea trout, 82. 
Southside Club, 158. 
Spanish mackerel, 156. 
Spawning-boxes, directions for, 
392. 
Spawning-times of fishes, 406. 
Spermaceti, 518. 
Spearing, the, 103. 
Spinning baits, 295, 
Spinning tackle for live bait, 299. 
Splice, modern, for fly-rods, 159. 
Spot, or Lafayette, 463. 
Spuyten Duyvel Creek, bass fishing in, 
49, 52 
Squeteague or weakfish, 79. 
Squids—for bluefish, 120; for Spanish 
mackerel, 131. 
St. John River, fishing on, 222. 
Stain, how to, silkworm gut, 
gimp, 519. 
Statistics of lake fisheries, 315; of 
mackerel catches, 323; of shad fish- 
eries, 325; of menhaden, 328; of 
salt-water ‘fisheries, 339. 
Stewed fish, 507. 
386, 
170; 
INDEX. 
Stocking old ponds, 393. 
Stoddart, Thomas Tod, on worm-fish- 
ing for trout, 194. 
Stoddart’s directions for obtaining silk- 
worm gut, 171. 
Straightening casting-lines, 175. 
Streaked or rock gurnard, 425, 
Stream, how to fish a, 165. 
Striped bass, 48. See also Bass. 
Striped sea bass, 424. 
Stripping trout, 391. 
Sturgeon and Chimera family, 432. 
Sucker, common New York, 428. 
Sulphur whale, 835. 
Sunfish, the, 286 ; 
442, 
Superior, food fishes of Lake, 315. 
Surmullet, the red, 424. 
Swordfish, the common, and the In- 
dian, 426, 
the short sunfish, 
Tackle for taking small bass, 50; for 
kingfish, 97; for sea bass, 108; for 
bluefish, 120; for trouting, 159; for 
salmon, 207; for pickerel, 270; for 
maskinongé, 279. 
Taste in fishes, 33. 
Tautog or blackfish, 113. 
Tautog, the American, 111; how to 
cook it, 114. 
Teeth of fishes, 34. 
Tench, the, 428. 
Thebes, hook exhumed at, 22. 
Thornback ray, the, 433. 
Thousand Islands, the, 274. 
Thumb-stall, 67. 
To make delicious butter easily, 508 ; 
to select mushrooms, 511; to dress 
leather wading-boots, 518 ; to keep 
moth from feathers, 519; to pre- 
serve silk-worm gut, 519; to stain 
gimp, 519. 
Togue, the, 479. 
Tongue, the, of fishes, 34 
Tope or penny-dog, 432. 
Torpedo, the common, 433. 
Torsk, the, 430. 
‘«Transmutations of the snlingn 356. 
Trolling—in Hell Gate, 52; among 
the ‘Thousand Islands, 274;  troll- 
ing weather and baits, 303; differ- 
eut kinds of tackle, 53, 54, 5B, 295, 
296, 297, 298, 299. 
Trout, the Southern sea, 82; the brook, 
146; fly-fishing for, 1545; bait-fish- 
