INDEX. 



Abrams, Captain, 91. 

 Acclimatizing fishes, 440. 

 Adirondack boats, 162. 

 Ainsworth's race and screens, 397. 

 Albicore supposed to be bonetta, 134. 

 Alexander's "Salmon Fishing" in 



Canada, 335. 

 Amphion and the dolphins, 38. 

 Ancient and modern fish-culture, 347. 

 Anderson, John, Esq., 75. 

 Angel-fish or monk-fish, 433. 

 Antiquity of the "gentle art," 143. 

 Apogon, the Mediterranean, 424. 

 Ardent angler, the, 192. 

 Austin, George, 63. 

 Australia, the salmon experiment in, 



369, 379. 

 "Ave Maria," Canadian version, 218. 

 Axillary sea bream, 425. 



Bait-box, 174. 



Bait-can and baits, 294. 



Bait-fishing for trout, 189. 



Baits, 36, 37, 67. 



Ballysadare salmon-pass, 413. 



Bamboo rod. Dr. Clerk's, 211. 



Banded ephippus, the, 425. 



Barbel, the, 428. 



Barker an authority, on angling, 179. 



Barren Island, fishing at, 97. 



Basket, trout, 174. 



Bass, angling for striped, 48 ; trolling 

 in Hell Gate for, 52 ; still-baiting 

 for, 58 : casting bait for, 64 ; an- 

 gling at the clubs, 69 ; the sea bass, 

 106 ; the black, 282 ; the Oswego, 

 282 ; the black of the South, 284 ; 

 the spotted, or speckled hen, 285 ; 

 the rock bass of the Lakes, 285 ; the 

 striped sea, the black of Lake Hu- 

 ron, and the black sea, 424. 



"Bass grounds," 282. 



Bearded umbrina, 425. 



Beardie or loach, 428. 



Bellows-fish, 111. 



Bergen Point, reef-fishing on, 61. 



Berners or Barnes, Dame Juliana, 143. 



Bethune, Rev. Dr., 259, 275. 



Big porgee, the, 425. 



Black bass of Lake Huron, 424. 



Black flies, antidote for, 207. 



Black sea bass, 424. 



Blnefish, the, 117. 



Blueshark, the, 432. 



Bonetta or bonito, 132. 



Borelli, Professor, 45. 



Bory St. Vincent, M., 34. 



Bottom fishing, rig for, 59. 



Brackett, Walter M., 146, 290. 



Bradley, Professor, 38. 



Breeding times of fishes, 406. 



Brook trout, 146. 



Brown catfish, 433. 



Brown's, Dr., Angler's Guide, 109. 



Buel feathered spoon, 285. 



Buel's patent feather troll, 299. 



Bullfrog and horned pout, 435. 



Camp bed, 229. 



Canada, hiring rivers in, 205 ; salmon 



fishing in, 206. 

 Canadian salmon-stairs, 416. 

 Canandaigna Lake, trout of, 263 ; 



black bass of, 282. 

 Canarsie, fishing at, 90. 

 Caplin, the, 105. 

 Carp family, the, 428. 

 Carps at Rotterdam, 38. 

 Casting bait for bass, 64. 

 Casting-lines, straightening, 175. 

 Castle Connell rods, 212. 

 Catfish family, the, 433. 

 Caving Channel, fishing at, 98. 

 Cayuga Lake, trout of, 263 ; black 



bass of, 282 ; pike of, 288. 

 Cero, cerus, or sierra, 134. 

 Characterization of fishes, 17. 

 Chars, M., 37. 



Chesapeake Bay fishery, 342. 

 Children, angling for, 198. 



