R. LAKELAND.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Pisces Fluviales, River Fish | [ 1] |
| Advice to beginners | [ 9] |
| Various Useful Hints | [ 11] |
| On Fly Fishing | [ 14] |
| The Angling Months | [ 17] |
| Natural Fly Fishing | [ 27] |
| The Stone Fly | [ 27] |
| The Flesh Fly | [ 30] |
| The Cow Dung Fly | [ 31] |
| List of Palmer Flies | [ 33] |
| List of Hackle Flies | [ 39] |
| March Brown or Dun Drake | [ 42] |
| Select List of very killing Flies, both Palmers and Hackles | [ 43] |
| List of Hackles and Silks to suit | [ 44] |
| A List of Flies likely to kill in Trout streams | [ 45] |
| How to Dress the above | [ 47] |
| Red Palmer—Black Palmer—May Flies | [ 52] |
| How to make a Hackle Fly | [ 54] |
| To make a Winged Fly | [ 54] |
| Materials required for making Winged and Hackle Flies | [ 55] |
| To make a Palmer Fly | [ 56] |
| Golden Palmer—Silver Hackle Palmer | [ 59] |
| To Make Hackle Flies | [ 60] |
| Worm Fishing | [ 61] |
| Trolling with Minnow | [ 64] |
| Maggots—Gentles—Docken Grub | [ 67] |
| Cad Bait—Worms, &c. | [ 68] |
| Salmon Roe | [ 70] |
| Dyeing Feathers for Fly Making | [ 71] |
| To make strong White Wax | [ 72] |
| Fishing Panniers | [ 72] |
| Landing Nets—Reels—Gut—Hair | [ 73] |
| Rods | [ 74] |
| Lines—Hooks—Fishing Garments | [ 75] |
| Health—Caution | [ 76] |
| The Eye the only acute faculty in Fish | [ 77] |
| Transport of Trout and Greyling | [ 78] |
| The Natural Enemies of Fish | [ 79] |
| Laws relative to Angling | [ 80] |
| The Effects of Weather on Fish | [ 81] |
| What constitutes a Good Fishing Day | [ 82] |
| On Early Rising in connection with Angling | [ 83] |
| Over-Preservation, &c. | [ 85] |
| Angling Impediments | [ 87] |
| Barnard Castle as an Angling Station | [ 89] |
| Weather Signs and Changes | [ 90] |
| Weather Table | [ 93] |
| Notices of Rare and Curious Angling Books | [ 93] |
| Addenda | [ 95] |
THE TEESDALE ANGLER.
Pisces Fluviales—RIVER FISH.
- Salmo—The Salmon.
- Trutta—The Trout.
- Thymallus—The Grayling.
- Capito Seu Cephalus—The Chub.
- Salmonidæ—Smelts.
- Anguilla—The Eel.
- Various seu Phocinus—The Minnow.
- Cobitus Fluviatilis Barbatula—The Loach.[1] ]
I deem a very brief notice of the above varieties of fish sufficient,—they have been described over and over again by much abler pens than mine, and I advise all those who are desirous of minute details, as to their conformation and habits, to have recourse to one of the published Histories of British Fishes,[2] ] indeed all the above fish and their varieties have been faithfully and naturally described in (I take it for granted) every angling book that has yet been published. As to Salmon, I need allude no further than observe (as every one knows that they are both ocean and river fish) that they afford, when plentiful, excellent sport to the angler, taking freely the Minnow, Worm and Fly, that they generally select the deepest pools of a river for their chief residence, but yet may be taken anywhere with the fly where there is three feet of water. They generally rise best about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and three in the afternoon of a day. When there is a little wind stirring, if accompanied by rattling showers of hail or snow in the Spring, or heavy showers of rain in Summer, so much the more likely for sport.