GENERAL INDEX. 



427 



Pike, the, 116 — 189 ; a universal fish, 

 115; sold for the price of two lambs, 

 115 ; eating pike, 118 ; trolling for, 

 135 ; time for pouching the bait, 136 ; 

 of the Mississippi River, 138 ; Essex 

 Vittatus 138; how to cook, 139. 



Piccauau, 138. 



Pleasure parties' excursion for cod, 204, 

 205'. 



Poor Johns, 282 ; poor rich men, 18. 



Poisson Kouge, 235, 236. 



Poetry, love of angling, 229 ; on the 

 trout, 66, 94, 108 ; on the salmon, 53 ; 

 on the dolphin, 289; ou angling, 14, 

 15 ; on the fly, 330 ; on the angler, 19 ; 

 Dr. Wolcott's, 223 ; on the bonito, 

 386 ; on the Cisco, 361 ; on the gray- 

 ling, 368 ; on the grouper, 346 ; on the 

 poinpano, 348 ; on the Spanish mack- 

 erel, 378 ; on the white fish, 358, 359; 

 ou the White Lake Creek, 342, 412. 



Porgy-flshing, 214, 215. 



Porpoise harpooned, 214. 



Places for taking equeteague, 172. 



Physicians' prescriptions, 51. 



Prolific perchj 143. 



Proper rod for tautog-fiBhiug, 183. 



Protection of the finny race. 



Preface to Part I., 11 ; to Part II., 227. 



Preservation of lines, 329. 



Professor, the, a good fly, 330. 



Palate-tickler, 377, 878. 



Palmer. John, on fish-culture, 366. 



Pearl of the Southern waters, 348. 



Perpetuation of the Cisco, 363. 



Pisciculture, 400-106. 



Playing the sting-ray, 379, 380. 



Pompano, the, 348. 



Prawns of the South, 374. 



Price of the mullet, 349 ; of the pom- 

 pano, 349. 



Prof. Milner on the grayling, 372. 



Quality of rods, 22; lines, 25; hooks, 29, 27. 

 Quantity of smelts taken in one day, 248 ; 

 of mackerel, 311 ; of basse, 163. 



Rapacity of the pike, 118. 



Rapid growth of the pike. 119. 



Reels, described, 24 ; the click, for trout 

 and perch, 75 ; basse, salmon, pike, 

 etc, 57, 171 ; improvement in, 44. 



Redflsh or spotted basse, 235 ; anecdote 

 of, 236. 



Red-fly for trout, 330. 



Red-horse, 322. 



Renme's method of making the Palmer 



fly, Ill- 

 Requisite tackle for taking the carp, 155. 



Ring, the clearing, 33, 202. 



Roe, salmon, for bait, 40. 



Ronconkama pond, 141. 



Rods, variety of, 21 ; for pike, basse, sal- 

 mon, 22; for trout, 23; general, 23 ; 

 for fly-fishing, 75 ; for pike, 124 ; 

 for striped basse, 164 ; for salmon, 57. 



Rusty Dab, the, 330. 



Ray, the sting, 378; the family, 398. 



Range of the striped basse, 412. 



Remy and GeTiin, the fish-calturists, 401. 



Recipe for dressing a salad, 409. 



Restocking rivers in England and Scot- 

 land, 402. 



Red snapper, tbe, 344. 



Re-populatine Lakes Erie and Michigan, 

 360. 



Richardson's grayling, 369. 



Robin, the, 3B5. 



Rock basse of the lakes, 366. 



Rod for surf-fishing for basse, 383. 



Roosevelt, R. B., on hatching shad, 403 ; 

 on the sturgeon, 390. 



Salmon, the, 52-63; bait-fishing for, 57; 

 fly-fishing for, 58 ; worm-fishing for, 

 58 ; flies for taking, 61, 62 ; spearing, 

 62 ; known to the early Romans, 52 ; 

 on the Hudson and Connecticut, 53 ; 

 on the Sacramento, 293 ; time or 

 ' spawning, 54 ; size aud weight of, 

 55; sport, Sir Walter Scott's opinion 

 of, 56; spawn, how to preserve, 40. 



Salmo Hucho, 70. 



Salt-water fish transferred to fresh water, 

 266: sheepshead aud fresh com- 

 pared, 200, 201 . 



Salter on caution, 49 ; on drawing in the 

 pike, 137 ; on the grayling, 373. 



Sea-basse and porgy, 214. 



Separate rods for each kind of fishing, 23. 



Sinkers, description of, 29, 30 ; improved 

 swivel, 30. 



Shot, split, 80. 



Shiner for bait, 286, 295. 



Shrimp, bait for basse and squeteague, 

 35, 172. 



Shad-roe a bait for basse, 166. 



Shoemaker, the, 322. 



Soft-shell clam for tautog, 35 ; for basse, 

 168. 



Solitary habits of tbe pike, 119. 



Silkworm gut, 31, 258. • 



Silver trout, 66 ; perch, 142. 



Spearing eels, 280. 



Spbon-bait, 250, 251, 236. 



Spring snap hooks, 262. 



Spearing striped basse, 169. 



Splicing rods, 325. 



Squid, the, 238, 239. 



Squeteague, 170 to 173 ; where found, 172. 



Slow growth of the perch, 143. 



SmitVs pike story, 117 ; ou the abun- 

 dance of salmon, 52; on Salmo Hu- 

 cho, 70 ; on the hearing of fishes, 49 ; 

 on sea-trout. 68, 69 ; on the su-iped 

 basse, 160. 



Snaring suckers, 320'. 



Sportsmanship in worm-fishing. 92. 



Splendid leaps of the black basse, 193 . 



Smelt, the, 247-249; experiment at 

 Jamaica Pond, 249. 



Snap-bait, 131. 



Sucker, the, 319-323 ; horned, 320 ; Onei- 

 da, 320; mullet, 321; red-hor-e, 321; 

 black, 322 ; Kentucky, etp. 322. 



Street, poetry on the trout, 66. ' 



Striped-basse angling on Long Island 

 Sound, 245. 



Stone-fly in windy weather, 102. 



Sheepshead, 195 - 202 ; fresh-water, 200 ; 

 where found, 197, 198 ; anecdote, 199 ; 

 his jewels, 201. 



