Knot, for leader, 19. jam, for eyed hook, 19. _Kyphosus sectatrix_, Bermuda chub, 382. Lady anglers, 148, 149. Lady-fish, 355. Lafayette, 228. description, 229. tackle and fishing, 230, 231. _Lagodon rhomboides_, pin-fish, 330, 386. Lake Erie bass, 74. Lake-herring, 207. Lake-sheepshead, 232. Lamplighter, 74. Lane snapper, 339. description, 340. habits and habitat, 341. Large-mouth black-bass, 30. Leather-fish, 390. _Leiostomus xanthurus_, Lafayette, 214, 228. _Lepomis auritus_, red-breast sunfish, 67. _Lepomis megalotis_, long-eared sunfish, 65. _Lepomis pallidus_, blue sunfish, 62. Lewis and Clark, 181-183. _Libinia_, spider crab genus, 320. _Limnoria_, gribble genus, 321. Little Giant rod, 101, 102. Little-head porgy, 352. description, 352. tackle and fishing, 353. _Lobotes pacificus_, berrugate, 371. _Lobotes surinamensis_, triple-tail, 370. Long-eared sunfish, 65. description, 65. tackle and fishing, 66. Lucky stones, 233. _Lutianidæ_, snapper family, 336. _Lutianus analis_, mutton-fish, 347. _Lutianus apodus_, schoolmaster, 338, 345. _Lutianus aya_, red snapper, 337, 342. _Lutianus griseus_, mangrove snapper, 347. _Lutianus jocu_, dog snapper, 337, 344. _Lutianus synagris_, lane snapper, 337, 339. Mackerel family, 272. kingfish, 279. Spanish, 273. Margate fish, 328. description, 328, 329. tackle and fishing, 330. Mascalonge, 122. coloration, 127-129. description, 126, 127. distribution, 126. nomenclature, 122-126. tackle and fishing, 132-135. Maskinonge, 124. _Menippe_, stone crab genus, 320. _Menticirrhus americanus_, whiting, 225. _Menticirrhus littoralis_, silver whiting, 225. _Menticirrhus saxatilis_, kingfish, 221. Michigan grayling, 178. _Micropogon undulatus_, croaker, 214, 226. _Micropterus dolomieu_, small-mouth black-bass, 1, 3. _Micropterus salmoides_, large-mouth black-bass, 2, 30. Minnow family, 236. Minnow gangs, 143. Montana grayling, 181. _Morone americana_, white-perch, 95, 110. _Morone interrupta_, yellow-bass, 90. Mud-dab, 266. _Mugil cephalus_, common mullet, 319. _Mugil curema_, white mullet, 319. _Mugil trichodon_, fan-tail mullet, 319. _Mugilidæ_, mullet family, 319. Mullet, common, 319. fan-tail, 319. whirligig, 319. white, 319. Multiplying reel, invention of, 13. Muskellunge, 125. _Mycteroperca falcata phenax_, scamp, 286, 291. _Mycteroperca microlepis_, gag, 285, 287. _Mycteroperca venenosa_, yellow-fin grouper, 286, 294. Newlight, 80. Nigger-fish, 287, 300. description, 300, 301. tackle and fishing, 302. Not all of fishing to fish, 92-94.