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GENERAL INDEX. 



Buffalo, 313, 314. 



Black trout, 309, 310. 



Brown catfish, 306. 



Brown, Dr. Riifus, on the black basse, 



289. 

 Balloon or float fishing, 394. 

 Beauty of the cavallo, 347 ; sea trout, 344; 



pompano, 346. 

 Benefactors of the human race, 405. 

 Best fishing-ground for Lafayette, 352. 

 Bethune, Rev. Dr., 339, 392. 

 Black basse of the St. Lawrence, 414. 

 Black snapper, 345. 

 Hream, Southern, 356. 

 Bread or blood, 405. 

 Bonetta, or bonito, 385. 

 Brains of fishes, 391. 

 Brown, Dr. Rufus, on the grayling, 372. 



Catching the devil, 331. 

 Caution in angling, 49. 

 Calcutta rods, 22. 

 Casting for pike, 133. 

 Common trout of Massachusetts, 67. 

 Common mode of cooking trout, 97. 

 Common perch, 140. 

 Carp, tenacious of life, 153. 

 Carp, the, 151 ; 100 years old. 152 ; im- 

 ported from England, 151; where 



lound, 153. 

 Care of rods, 328. 

 Catfish, 285, 306. 

 Codfish, 203; codfish-balls, 205. 

 Contents of Part I., 9, 10 ; of Part II., 



225, 226. 

 Cotton, rod for trout, 76 ; on dibbing, 80, 



81; on angling with hair snells^77; 



on casting the fly, 77 ; on the chub, 



218; where taken, 219. 

 Cow-dang fly for trout, 101 ; where taken, 



219. 

 Cleopatra fond of angling, 13. 

 Clearing ring, 33, 202. 

 Clinton, Hon. Geo. W., on the black and 



Oswego basse, 190; on the sheeps- 



head, 195. 

 Clam for blackfish, 35. 

 Clea r-weather fishing, 92. 

 Cheese and cotton for bait, 314. 

 Crab bait for basse, 35, 167. 

 Curved Limerick hooks, 27. 

 Curious mode of taking lake-trout, 243. 

 Care of reels and lines, 391, 392. 

 Catfish, the blue, 353. 

 Cavallo, 847. 

 Chub, the Southern, 351. 

 Chub-robin, the, 355. 

 Cisco, the, of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, 



361-364; color of, 362; fly for, 362; of 



Lake Ontario, 364; scooped up by the 



bushel, 363, note. 

 Classes of fishes, 396, 398. 

 Coast fishes, North and South, 343. 

 Contents of Part HI., 334, 335. 

 Crawfish, the. 874. 

 Croaking of the blue cat, 354. 

 Crocus, the, of the South, 3"1. 



Dana, poetry on the ocean, 214. 

 Davy, Sir Humphrey, on . angling and 

 health, 16 ; on cooking salmon, 68. 



DavieB, Joe, poetry on angling, 14, 15. 



Dewey. Rev. Dr., on bad effects of inces- 

 sant toil. 18. 



Dancing for eels, 275. 276. 



Dewiti Clinton on the striped basso, 159. 



Dekay on the mackinaw trout, 240. 



Decreased voracity of the pike, 120. 



Dibbing or dabbing for trout, 81, 82. 



Description of a basse rod and tackle, 

 164, 165. 



Directions for making a snap-bait, 131. . 



Difference of opinion on cookery, 148 ; 

 on the trout, 96. 



Description of the kingflsh, 174, 175. 



Detroit angling, 299, 322. 



Deer's tail for trolling, 331. 



Double swivel trace, 126. 



Dr. Johnson rebuked, 223. 



Dolphin fishing, 289. 



Dr. Donne's love-song, 15. 



Dress of the angler, 60. 



Doctors disagree, 163. 



Drayton on the somersault of the salmon, 

 53. 



Drumming of the squeteague, 172 ; of the 

 drum-flsh, 187. 



Drum-fish. 186. 



Dun-flies for trout, 100, 101. 



Duck swallowed by a pike-perch, 297. 



Dutch fishermen in the eel business, 275. 



De Witt Clinton on the white-fish, 359. 



Delicate appetites, 389. 



Delicacy of the white-fish, 360. 



Description of the white-fish, 360; gray- 

 ling, by Mather, 370, 371: Spanish 

 mackerel, 876; Btnrgeon, 3S8. 



Dr. Scott on the sheepshead, 379. 



Dorsal fin of the grayling, 370, 373. 



Eel, the, 217, 274: variety of, 276, 277; a 

 savory dish, 217 ; bobbing for, 279 : a 

 cosmopolite, 274; sniggling for, 278 ; 

 the lamprey, 218; in Holland, 275; 

 rain or mud pup, 276 ; dancing for, 

 275. 



English fishing parties in the United 

 States, 47. 



Extraordinary length of time to gorge a 

 bait, 136. 



Exploded ideas on fly-fishing, 98. 



Experienced angler on striped basse, 166. 



Excitement in oluefishingj 211. 



Exciting Connecticut fishing, 294, 295. 



Evening Post on the menhaden, 382 ; eu- 

 logy on Eev. G. Huntington, 341. 



Feathers for flies, 114 ; fish-hooks, 26. 

 Fecundity of the coo, 204 ; filing hooks, 



29. 

 Float, description of, 29, 270, 271; for 



basse, pickerel, salmon, etc., 31 ; for 



trout, 30. 

 Fishing out of season, 51. 

 Flies, artificial, 100-106; how to make 



them, 109-114. 

 Fly-fishing for trout, 73, 74 ; for salmon, 



60, 61; for lake-trout, 243; for black 



trout, 210 : for mackerel, 312. 

 Fishing at Hell Gate, 163. 

 Fiddlers for tautog, 254, 256. 

 Flounder, the, 207; 208. 



