102 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. 



take two pieces, of about ten or twelve inches 

 each, of choice twisted gut, and join them together 

 neatly and strong, with a small box swivel 3 then 

 at one end of the traces make a loop, and at the 

 other end tie securely and neatly a loop or hook 

 swivel, on which you hang the length of twisted 

 gut which is fixed to the baited hook ; now fix the 

 loop end of the traces to the running line on a 

 light trolling rod ; draw nearly as much line out as 

 your rod is long -, hold the rod in one hand and 

 about a yard of your line draw from the winch in 

 the other, which you let go when you cast in your 

 bait lightly in search -, first to the opposite side or 

 across the stream drawing over the current, raising 

 and falling your bait : when you feel a bite, lower the 

 top of your rod a little ; wait two or three minutes 

 before you strike, that the Trout may have time to 

 gorge the bait ; now wind up the slack line and strike 

 handsomely. This mode of fishing is generally 

 called roving or trolling for Trout. In dipping and 

 drawing, your bait and tackle is the same ; but there 

 is not occasion for quite so much line to be drawn 

 from your rod, as the bait, when dipping, is only 

 dropped in holes or near large stones, and in eddies 

 near the bank you stand on. When the bait touches 

 the bottom, gently draw it to the right, then the left, 

 and slowly raise it to the surface, and so continue 

 till you get a bite, then act as directed in roving ; 

 but if you rove or dip, and draw and bait with worms. 



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