INDEX. ACC ACCLIMATISATION of the black BARBEL and bream, and fishing for, 299-307 Baits for pike, and bait catching, Baits, natural, for spinning, fresh or stale, 42 how to keep alive, 42. 44 tench as a pike bait, 43 Field's aerating bait can, 47 eel-tail, salt and fresh, and Bait catching, 47 cast net, 47 DACE and chub, and fishing dace and chub flies, 309. 315 'Pennell sneck' bend, 310 bottom fishing and ground natural grasshoppers and arti ficial caterpillars, 316 'pith' and bullock's brains, EEL-TAIL bait, salt and fresh, 409 HOOKS, killing powers of, in 124 'straight reverse' ditto, 77 for float fishing generally, 205- eyed, turn-down, 309-313 and sea-fishing, 313 PER Perch and perch fishing (cont.): perch fishing with paternoster, minnow and float, 262 spinning for, baits and tackle, float and worm, 265 Pike, notes on history of, European and American, 3 taking frogs in stew-ponds, killed by swallowing lizard, 141 capacity of food consumption, growth rate, 144-149 fish casting v. fish stuffing, very large pike, 150-155 fish 'declensions,' 157 edible qualities of, and cook- Pike fishing, 64-204 correct principles in con- 'flying' triangles, 68 three patterns of flights, to bait a spinning flight, 77.83 Tinsel and varnish for flights, proportion of runs missed, Mr. Pennell's improved flights, to dispense with lip hooks, diagram of, and trace, 83. 85 the trace, 83. 85 'Buffer' knot for traces, 87 leads-new pattern, 88-90. 91. 03 kinking,' 66. 89 testimony to success of Mr. how and where to spin, 94-131 best places for spinning, 100. artificial baits, failure of, 101. jack fishing on the Avon, 107- III 'midge antidote,' 110-111 |