Index. 



483 



Sinker, the ponderating, 310. 



Sinkers for sheepshead, 88. 



Skaneateles Lake, fishes in, 283. 



Sligo salmon-stairs, 415. 



SmeU in fishes, 36. 



Smelt, the, 102. 



Smelts, trade in, 340. 



Smoking salmon, statistics of, 339; 



Smolt, salmon, 375. 



Smooth hound, the, 432. 



Snedicor's, Oba, preserve, 158. 



Sole, the common, 431. 



"Songs of the WUderness," extract 

 from, 234. 



Southern sea trout, 82. 



Southside Club, 158. 



Spanish mackerel, 156.. 



Spawning-boxes, directions for, 386, 

 392. 



Spawning times of fishes, 406. 



Spearing, the, 103. 



Spinning baits, 295. 



Spinning tackle for live bait, 299. 



Splice, modern, for fly-rods, 159. 



Spuyten Duyvel Creek, bass fishing in, 

 49, 52. 



Squeteague or weakfish, 79. 



Squids — for bluefish, 120 ; for Spanish 



mackerel, 131. 

 St. John's River, fishing on, 222. 

 Stain, how to, silkworm gut, 170. 

 Statistics of Lake fisheries, 315 ; of 

 mackerel catches, 323 ; of shad fish- 

 eries, 325 ; of menhaden, 328 ; of 

 salt-water fisheries, 339. 

 Stocking old ponds, 393. 

 Stoddart, Thomas Tod, on worm-fish- 

 ing for trout, 194. 

 Stoddart's du-ections for obtaining silk- 

 worm gut, 171. 

 Straightening casting lines, 175. 

 Stressed 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 Chimasra family, 432. 

 Sucker, common New York, 428. 

 Sulphur whale, 335. 

 Sunfish, the, 286 ; the short sunfish, 



442. 

 Superior, food fishes of Lake, 315. 

 Surmullet, the red, 424. 

 Swordfish, the common, and the In- 

 dian, 426. 



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 

 maskinong^, 279. 



Taste in fishes, 33. 



Tautog or Wckfish, 113. 



Tautog, the American, 111 ; how to 

 cook it, 114. 



Teeth of fishes, 34. 



Tench, the, 428. 



Thebes, hook exhumed at, 22. 



Thomback ray, the, 433. 



Thousand Islands, the, 274. 



Thumb-staU, 67. 



Tongue, the, of fishes, 34. 



Tope or penny-dog, 432. 



Torpedo, the common, 433. 



Torsk, the, 430. 



' ' Transmutations of the salmon, "356. 



Trolling— in Hell Gate, 52; among 

 the Thousand Islands, 274; troll- 

 ing weather and baits, 303 ; differ- 

 ent kinds of tackle, 53, 54, 55, 295, 

 296, 297, 298, 299. 



Trout, the Southern sea, 82 ; the 

 brook, 146 ; fly-fishing for, 154 ; 

 bait-fishing for, 189 ; silver or sea, 

 255 ; the white, 258 ; the winni- 

 nish, 260 ; the red of Long Lake, 

 262 ; of Seneca and Cayuga, 263 ; 

 the Mackinaw, 264 ; stripping, 391 ; 

 feeding young, 392 ; stocking old 

 ponds with, 393 ; the New York 

 brook, 429 ; the great lake trout of 

 Europe, 429. 



Troutlet, 429. 



Trumpet-fish, 111. 



Trygon, the many-spined, 433. 



Tunny, the common, 426. 



Turbot, the, 431. 



Tusculum, ancient fish-ponds at, 350. 



Umbagog Lake, 181 . 



Umbagog range of lakes, trout of, 147. 



Umbrina, the bearded, 425. 



Vision in fishes, 26. 

 Voracity of fishes, 42. 



Walcott's (Dr.) verses, 43. 

 Wall-eyed or glass-eyed pike, 288. 

 Walton, Izaak, 36, 37. 

 Weakfish or squeteague, 79. 

 Webster, the late lion. Daniel, 158. 



