Oceanic bonito, 283. _Ocyurus chrysurus_, yellow-tail, 336, 338. _Orchestia_, beach-flea genus, 321. _Orthopristis chrysopterus_, pig-fish, 322, 330, 331. _Osmerus mordax_, smelt, 263, 269. Osprey on the fly, 64. _Palinurus_, sea-crawfish genus, 318. _Palæmonetes_, prawn genus, 321. _Panopeus_, mud crab genus, 320. _Perca flavescens_, yellow-perch, 165. Perch, black, 371. blue, 264. bridge, 74. chincapin, 74. family, 156. goggle-eye, 74, 80. pike, 157. raccoon, 166. red-bellied, 68. ringed, 166. Sacramento, 57. warmouth, 58. white, 110, 234. yellow, 165. _Percidæ_, perch family, 156. Permit, 312. _Petrometopon cruentatus_, coney, 286, 299. Pickerel, banded, 154. brook, 154. eastern, 149. great northern, 137. Long Island, 154. reticulated, 149. western, 153. Pig-fish, 322, 330, 331. description, 331, 332. tackle and fishing, 333. Pike, 137. description, 137-140. fishing through ice, 144-146. tackle and fishing, 141-147. Pike family, 120. glass-eyed, 157. gray, 164. rattlesnake, 164. sand, 164. wall-eyed, 157. yellow, 157. Pike-perch, 157. description, 157-160. night fishing, 162. tackle and fishing, 161-163. Pikes, key to, 121, 122. Pin-fish, 386. description, 386, 387. tackle and fishing, 387. Piscatorial polemic, 44. _Platyonichus_, lady crab genus, 320. _Pomoxis annularis_, crappie, 3, 79. _Pomoxis sparoides_, calico-bass, 3, 73. Pompano, 311. description, 311-314. best of food-fishes, 312, 314. tackle and fishing, 313, 314. Pompano, common, 307, 311. gaff top-sail, 312. permit, 312. round, 312. Porgy, 259. big-head, 347, 348. family, 347. grass, 348, 353. jolt-head, 348. little-head, 348, 352. saucer-eye, 348, 350. Pork-fish, 323, 334. description, 334, 335. tackle and fishing, 335. Prawn, 321. _Pseudopleuronectes americanus_, flounder, 263, 266. Pumpkin-seed, 69. _Pyrula_, mollusk genus, 318, 339. _Querimana gyrans_, whirligig mullet, 319. Razor back, 74. Record fly-casting, 16. Red-bellied perch, 68. Red-breast bream, 68. Red-breast sunfish, 67. Red-eye, 53. Red hind, 286, 297. description, 297. tackle and fishing, 298. Red snapper, 342. description, 342. tackle and fishing, 343, 344. Red sunfish, 67. Reel, click, 17. Reel, multiplying, 13. Roach, 231. _Roccus chrysops_, white-bass, 86. _Roccus lineatus_, striped-bass, 95, 96. Rock, 96. Rock-bass, 52. description, 53. tackle and fishing, 54-57. Rockfish, 96.