INDEX. 



267 



Potato paste, 58, 169 

 Prizes for gross weight, 249 

 Punt, 244 

 pole, 245 



shows composition of 

 bed of river, 81 

 Pyrford, 33, 102 



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Reed float, 161 

 Richmond Ponds, 66 

 Richmond, wading at, 99 

 Rings on float, 8 

 River Mole, 35, 112 

 Roach, 146 



arrowroot paste, 168 



baits, 165 



bread-paste, 166 



close time, 147 



crust bait, 169 



dough bait, 169 



dropsical, 178 



effect of leaves on, 171 



evening fishing, 150 



flies, 171 



floats, 159, 160 



fresh hooks required, 166 



groundbait, 162 



grirbs, 170 



gut length, 157 



hair length, 157 



hooks, 158, 159, 165 



in floods, 151 



legering, 175 



line, 156 



long swims, 176 



methods of fishing, 172 



Norfolk, in, 149 



popularity of fishing, 146 



rods, 153 



season, 147 



shotting tackle, 162 



shy fish, 150 



stewed wheat, 170 



slool or basket, I77 



tiQ;ht-floating, 175 



tight line on ringed rod, 154 



weed-bait, 169 



weight 148 



winch, 156 



worms, 171 



yellow paste, 1 63 



Rods, colour of, 237 

 Rod-rests, 247 

 Rod-rings, 238 

 Rudd, 179 



float-fishing. iSo 



fly-fishing, 180 



season, i8o 



tackle, 179 

 Ruffe, 216 

 Rushmere Pond, 67 

 Rypeck, 243 



St. Neots, 54 

 "Setting up" fish, 21S 

 Shepperton, 185, 197 



Lock, 66 

 Shotting tackle, 78, 79, 162 

 Shrimp, baiting with, 107 

 Silex winch, 127, 203 

 Size of fish worth preserving, 221 

 Sizeable Thames fish, 227 

 Slapton Ley, 179 

 Slider float, 8, 240 

 SiJawn destroyed by swans, 256 

 Spoonbait, 115, 128 

 Sportsman's Arms Inn, 52 

 Stain for creel, 239 



gut, 239 

 Staines, 251 

 Stewart tackle, 16, 243 

 " Stop" on line, 9 

 Stour (Hants), 71 

 Striking, 53, 60, 78,86,117,139, 

 142, 157, li;9, 173, 175, 192 

 .Sunbui'y, 54 



Weir, 191, :97 

 Swans and fish-spawn, 256 

 Swivels, 134 



Table-vice, 239 

 Taxidermists, 222 

 Teddington, 99 



Weir, 66 

 Tench, 181 



baits, 184 



Chtrtsey. at, 1S5 



float-tackle, 183 



