_Argyrosomus artedi sisco_, cisco, 204, 207. Artificial flies, 20, 21. rules for, 21. Artificial key to pike species, 121, 122. Bachelor, 80. _Balistes carolinensis_, turbot, 390. Banded pickerel, 121, description, 154. tackle and fishing, 155. Bank lick bass, 73. Barb, 221. Bar-fish, 80. Bass, bank lick, 73. big-fin, 74. black, large-mouth, 30. black, small-mouth, 3. brassy, 90. calico, 73. family, 85. fresh-water striped, 86. grass, 73. Lake Erie, 74. rock, 52, 115. sea, 115. sea, Gulf, 119. sea, southern, 118. silver, 73. strawberry, 73. striped, 96. white, 86. white lake, 86. yellow, 90. Bastard margaret, 330. Bastard weakfish, 221. description, 221. habits and habitat, 222. Beach-fleas, 321. Bermuda chub, 382. description, 382. tackle and fishing, 383, 384. Besugo, 231. Big-fin bass, 74. Bitter-head, 74. Black-bass, small-mouth, 3. description, 1-6. gameness, 10-15. Black-bass [_continued_] habits and habitat, 7-9. tackle and fishing, 15-29. Black-bass, large-mouth, 30. description, 31. gameness, 34, 35. habits and habitat, 32-43. spawning and nesting, 33-43. tackle and fishing, 36-52. Blackfish, 115. Black grunt, 323. description, 323. tackle and fishing, 326. Black harry, 115. Black sea-bass, 115. Black sunfish, 58. Black will, 115. Blue bream, 62. Bluefish, 115. Blue gill, 62. Blue perch, 264. Blue sunfish, 62. description, 62. tackle and fishing, 64. _Bodianus fulvus_, nigger-fish, 287, 300. Bone-fish, 355, 361. Bonito, 282. description, 282. tackle and fishing, 283. Bony-fish, 361. Boy and tobacco-box, 67. Boyhood days, 72. Bream, blue, 62. copper-nosed, 62. red-breast, 68. Bridge perch, 74. Bubbler, 232. Burgall, 264. _Calamus arctifrons_, grass porgy, 348, 353. _Calamus bajonado_, jolt-head porgy, 347, 348. _Calamus calamus_, saucer-eye porgy, 348, 350. _Calamus proridens_, little-head porgy, 348, 352. Calico-bass, 73. description, 74. habits and habitat, 75. tackle and fishing, 75-78. Campbellite, 80. _Cancer_, common crab genus, 320. Cape May goody, 231. _Carangidæ, cavalli_ family, 306. _Carangus crysos_, runner, 306, 307. _Carangus latus_, horse-eye jack, 306, 310. Carp, German, 236. leather, 237. mirror, 237. scale, 237. Catfish, blue, 247. channel, 244. chuckle-head, 247. eel, 247. family, 244. forked-tail, 247. white, 245. willow, 247. Cavalli family, 306. _Centrarchidæ_, sunfish family, 1.