INDEX.
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [V], [W].
Achigon, [71].
Agates, [108].
Agawa, [91].
ascent of, [104].
canoes for, [99].
Indians at, [92].
mouth of, [59].
American Anglers’ Book, [269].
Anthony, John, [151].
Apostle Islands, [122].
Artificial baits, [272].
flies. See Flies.
bait-fishing, [246].
fly-fishing, [246].
minnow, [273].
Bacon, fried, [295].
Bass. See Striped Bass.
Batchawang Bay, [65].
falls, [82].
fishing, [79], [82].
river, [77], [110].
Bayfield, [122].
Beans, [296].
Beaver, teeth of, [115].
Bergall, [160].
Birch canoe, [126].
Black bass, [10].
where found, [11].
in Lake Superior, [71], [75].
Blue fish, [160], [274].
Brulé river, [122].
Buzz, [212].
Cakes, griddle, [299].
Camlet, [200].
Casting fly, [263].
contest, [266].
distance, [265].
rules of New York Club, [271].
for striped bass, [139], [140], [142].
Casting menhaden, [139], [144], [145], [147].
line, [261].
shrimp for striped bass, [143].
Catch, [204].
Chippewa, [78].
house, [36].
Chowder, clam, [289].
Scott’s, [300].
Webster’s, [298].
Chum, [153].
Clams, baked, [289].
broiled or fried, [290].
chowder. [289].
stewed, [290].
Cleveland, [23].
Close time of fish, [187].
Cock á doosh, [48].
Cookery for sportsmen, [279].
in the woods, [285].
materials for, [286].
Copper mines, [109].
Corn starch, [114].
bread, [299].
Cot, [155].
Cypress, J., Jr., [18].
Deacons’ quarrel, [171].
Dead river, [122].
Detour, [33].
Detroit, [28].
Dining by Americans, [29].
Duck, roast, [296].
Dyes, [240].
yellow, [240].
orange, [240].
scarlet, [240].
crimson, [241].
brown, [241].
blue, [241].
purple, [242].
violet, [242].
claret, [242].
black, [242].
lavender, [243].
blue dun, [243].
green, [243].
gray drake, [243].
gut, [244], [245].
Eggs, fried, poached, or scrambled, [290].
Esox boreus, [77].
Feathers, preserving, [213].
for fly-making, [201].
Fish, protection of, [183].
close time, [187].
baked, [293].
boiled, [291].
broiled, [292].
chowder, [289].
fried, [292].
potted, [297].
stewed, [293].
diminution of, [184], [185].
importance as food, [184].
spawning season, [187], [189].
Fisheries, value, [190].
Fishing grounds, [15], [16].
Flies of Lake Superior, natural, [117].
salmon, [202],
salmon from Scrope, [215].
trout, [210], [211].
Flies, [215].
alder fly, [231].
August dun, [235].
black gnat, [228].
black palmer, [238].
blue bottle, [237].
blue dun, [220].
brown palmer, [238].
cinnamon dun, [236].
fly, [236].
cow dung, [222].
dark mackerel, [232].
downhead fly, [228].
fern fly, [230].
grannom or green tail, [225].
gold-eyed gauze wing, [233].
gravel bed or spider, [225].
great red spinner, [223].
great dark drone, [221].
green drake, [231].
hazel fly, [232].
iron blue dun, [226].
Jenny spinner, [227].
Kinmont Willie, [215].
Lady of Mertoun, [215].
little dark spinner, [229].
yellow May dun, [228].
March brown, [223].
meg with the muckle mouth, [216].
meg in her braws, [216].
Michael Scott, [216].
oak fly, [228].
orange fly, [235].
peacock fly, [222].
projecting bodies, [217].
red ant, [234].
red palmer, [237].
red spinner, [220].
Ronald’s flies, [219].
sailor and soldier, [230].
sand fly, [224].
silver horns, [234].
stone fly, [224].
toppy, [215].
turkey brown, [229].
water cricket, [221].
wren tail, [233].
yellow dun, [226].
sally, [230].
Floss silk, [199].
Fly-book, [262].
casting. See Casting Fly.
making, [196].
bodies, [199].
buzz flies, [212].
catch, [204].
double hackles, [210].
gut loop, [202].
hackles, [200], [209].
hooks, selection, [197].
Hyde’s directions, [218].
materials, [198], [199], [200], [201].
materials preserving, [213].
midge flies, [213].
palmers, [213].
projecting bodies, [217].
salmon, [202].
stop, [204].
tag, [203].
tip, [203].
trout, [210], [211].
tying silk, [199], [212].
wax, [214], [198], [199], [213].
wings, [201], [205], [209].
mixed, [208].
Garden river, [121].
General remarks, [9].
Goulais bay, [61].
Grand island, [122].
Gravy, [296].
Gros Cap, [53], [55], [61], [116].
Griddle cakes, [299].
Guides, Alexis Biron, [40].
Joseph Le Sayre, [40].
Gut, [198].
loop, [202].
Harmony river, [67], [112].
falls, [68].
upper falls, [75].
Herring lake, [47].
Hooks, selection of, [197].
Hudson’s Bay Company, [60].
Ice drift, [55].
Isle aux Arabes, [65].
Judith Point. See Point Judith.
Kinnikinnick, [58].
Labrax Lineatus, [138].
Lake Huron, [32].
George, [33].
trout, [136], [275].
spawning season, [137].
Lake Superior, Chap. I., [22].
II., [38].
III., [60].
IV., [77].
V., [102].
flies for, artificial, [40], [128].
flies of, natural, [117].
north shore, [122].
resumé, [120].
return from, [118].
route to, [121].
tackle for, [128].
trout of, [124].
map, [130].
L’anse aux Crêpes, [88].
Leader, [261].
Lines, how prepared, [139].
for striped bass, [147].
Lines, [260].
Liver, how cooked, [299].
Lobsters, [293].
Mackinaw salmon. See Namaycush.
Maine, [14].
Mamainse, [88], [110].
Maple Island, [65].
Marquette, [121].
Meats, baked, boiled, broiled, and stewed, [295].
tough, [297].
Menhaden bait, how prepared, [153].
Midge flies, [213].
Milk, [286].
Mines, [117].
Mohair, [199].
Mount Kineo, [101].
Namaegoose, [122].
Namaycush, [62].
baits, [134].
characteristics, [135].
color, [132].
localities, [134].
seasons, [133].
spawning, [135].
Nepecgon, [124], [91].
Oysters, broiled, fried, or roasted, [288].
scolloped, [289].
stewed, [287].
Omelet, [291].
Palmers, [213].
Pancake Bay, [88].
Partridges, [111].
Pedro Don, [22].
baggage, [83].
conversation in Chippewa, [94].
disquisition on liquors, [24].
canoeing, [102].
china, [84].
Chippewa house, [36].
refusal to get up, [112].
sugar, [80].
table cloths, [86].
Pickerel of Lake Superior, [77].
Pictured rocks, [122].
Pike perch, [10].
where found, [10].
cut, [76].
Poaching, [192].
punishment for, [193].
Point Judith, [150].
blue-fish at, [160].
porgee at, [160].
snipe at, [159].
striped bass at, [151].
Pointe aux Pins, [53].
Chènes, [53].
Mines, [109].
Potatoes, [294].
Port Huron, [29].
Pork, fried, [295].
Protection of fish, [183].
Potomac, [139], [245].
Punch, arrack, [302].
champagne, [302].
Frank Forester’s, [303].
fish house, [301].
nondescript, [302].
pineapple, [301].
Porto-Rico, [302].
regal, [302].
Reels, [255].
for bass, [146].
welding, [257].
Reel-bands, [255].
Rice, [296].
Rock-fish, [138].
Roast birds, [296].
Rods, [246].
for salmon, [246].
for trout, [249].
rings for, [255].
Rod ferrules, [253].
how separated, [254].
Salmo amethystus. See Namaycush.
confinis, [135].
siscowet, [137].
Salmon, boiled, [297].
fishing with trout rod, [251].
flies from Scrope, [215].
fly-making, [202].
kippered, [298].
trout. See Namaycush, [136].
Sault Ste. Marie, [16].
fishing at, [42].
little rapids, [50].
rapids, [42].
trout pond at, [45].
Silk for tying flies, [199], [212].
Siskawitz, [63], [138].
Slick, [153].
Smoked beef, [291].
Snapping mackerel, [274].
Soups, [295].
South Bay, [161].
Spinning tackle, [275].
Sportsmanship, [19], [20].
Squid, [274].
Stateroom, [24].
Ste. Marie river, [33].
Stop, [204].
Striking trout, [265].
Striped bass, [138], [274].
baits, [149].
casting menhaden, [139], [144], [147].
eel skin, [153].
fishing adventure, [157].
fly-fishing, [139], [140], [142].
hooks for, [154].
implements for catching, [146], [155].
localities, [148].
seasons, [151], [152].
tackle for, [142].
Superior fishing, [21].
Superior, Lake. See Lake Superior.
Tag, [203].
Thumb-stall, [155].
Tinsel, [199].
Tip, [203].
Trout, [13].
cooked on first principles, [298].
Lake Superior, [14].
Maine, [14].
preserving, [90].
Lake. See Lake Trout.
flies, [210].
Truite du Lac. See Namaycush.
Tying silk, [199], [212].
Trolling spoons, [275].
Buel’s, [276].
Vails, [149].
Vegetables, [297].
Veil, [21].
Venison stew, [303].
Wax, [198], [199], [213].
soft, [214].
Wajack, [97].
Webster’s chowder, [298].
White-fish, [12].
how captured, [46].
Point, [121].
Wings, [201], [205], [209].
mixed, [208].
Worsted, [199].
SUPERIOR FISHING.
GENERAL REMARKS.
Although the shores of our northern coasts, both along the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, abound in numberless varieties of the finny tribe, and myriads of striped bass, cod, mackerel, tautog, herring, shad and blue-fish in the Northern States, and salmon, sea-trout, and capelin in the British Provinces, visit us in their season; the inland States, with the reservation of certain restricted localities, produce few varieties, and with a single exception, inferior kinds of fish. Throughout that vast region west of Pennsylvania, bordering on the great lakes, and stretching westward to the Rocky Mountains and northward to the Canadian boundary, as well as the centre of British America not communicating immediately with the sea or the immense bays of the Arctic Territory, there can be found but one, or at the most two kinds of fish that are worthy of the attention of the epicure or the sportsman. It is true that savage pickerel, immense mascallonge, and gigantic cat-fish lie in wait amid long weeds, and embedded in deep mud, a terror to their smaller brethren and a prize to the unrefined fisherman who looks to the profit to be derived from their heavy carcases; and that other coarse and ill-shapen creatures are taken in the net; but the only fishes that the true angler can regard as objects of sport are the pike-perch, and the black bass.
The pike-perch, which is variously termed the pickerel, pike of the lakes, glass-eye, big-eyed pike, and pickering, is taken in immense numbers in Lakes Erie and Huron, was formerly numerous in the Ohio, and inhabits to a greater or less degree the ponds or sluggish waters of that section. It is a savage fish, biting voraciously at bait or trolling-tackle, and where better fish are scarce, is regarded as a piscatory delicacy; but its play is weak and dull, and as it is taken with strong tackle, its capture requires neither the skill nor experience that lend the principal charm to angling; and by comparison with sea-fish, its flavor is coarse.
Captured mainly with the all-devouring net, it is salted and packed for winter use as our cod or mackerel are preserved, and constitutes at Sandusky and some other places an important object of commerce.