GENERAL INDEX. 



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A feeling angler, 329. 



A great baul, 187, 188. 



A perch eats its own eye, 144. 



Aberdeen hooks, 38. 



Abundance of trout, 66. 



Abstinence of the pike, 120. 



Abundance of Balmon in Scotland and 



America, 52. 

 Adonis of the sea, 311,386. 

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



make them, 109-114; reels, 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 sunfish, 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 Ausonius on the perch, 149. 

 A bright particular star, 368. 

 Abundance offish, 403, 415. 

 Accomplished angler, 369. 

 Advantages of fish-culture, 404. 

 A flsh with a tail ! 878, 380. 

 A new idea about the Cisco, 303, note. 

 A fish-chowder, 407. 

 Affrighted sportsmen, 380. 

 A great acquisition. 374. 

 Albany beef, 389. 



Ainsworth, TV. 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 used 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 basse, 167- 

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

 basse, 215; black basse; 190, 192; 

 blueflsh, 211; blackflsh, 179, 180; 

 Buffalo, 314; squeteague, 172; perch, 

 145, 147, 148; sunfish, 150; kingfish, 



176, 272; carp, 156; sheepshead, 198, 

 211 ; cod and tom-cod, 204, 205 ; floun- 

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

 catfish, 285, 307, 308; redflsh, 236; 

 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, firBt book on angling, 

 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 ; Btriped, 

 159, 245; green, 298. 



Blackfish or tautog, 176. 



Black-basse angling in the Niagara, 190 ; 

 in Michigan, 298-802 ; in Lake'George, 

 193. 



Black gnat, a good fly, 102. 



Basse, a Dntcn word, 160. 



Blackfish angling in Suffolk County, 254, 

 265, 256. 



Beware of his jaws, 137. 



Black trout, 309. 



Beauty of the trout, 73; of the salmon, 56. 



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 flsh, 96. 



Bait for pike, 122. 



Beautiful colors of the pike, 120. 



Bottom tackle for pike, 126. 



Blueflsh, tackle for, 211. 



Blackflsh, where to find him, 181. 



Brown basse, 69. 



Bob-fishing for eels, 279. 



Brookes on angling, 19. 



Blaine 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-roach, etc., 219. 



Black sucker, 322. 



