"232 THE TROLLER S GUIDE. 



more turns in his own element ; and when he again 

 •becomes tractable, you may be more sanguine of bag- 

 ging him. You are to note, that many very heavy 

 Fish are lost through the anxiety of getting them on 

 shore, and especially at the time the \iolent strug- 

 gling takes place, which I have described ; for then 

 the Troller should yield to the Fish ; but, on the con- 

 trary, the young Angler redoubles his efforts to drag 

 the unwilling Fish on shore ; but he frequently, by 

 using such improper force, either breaks his tackle or 

 draws the Pouch out of the Jack or Pike's stomach, 

 and of course, in either case, loses his prize. If you 

 fish with one hook fixed to the bait's gills, in the man- 

 ner described in Chap. III. fig. 1, you must pursue 

 the same method as described in respect to giving the 

 Jack or Pike time to pouch the bait when you have a 

 run ; but if you use a single hook, or three or five 

 hooks, as described in Chap. III. fig. 1, 3, and 4, you 

 then fish at snap 3 and instead of giving time to 

 pouch, when you see your float taken down, by a Jack 

 or Pike having seized your live bait, observe which 

 way he goes, and after he has run a yard or so of line 

 out, strike him with a lusty stroke, that some of the 

 hooks may get a firm hold ; then play, kill, and land 

 him, secundum artem. — Note. When fishing with those 

 one, three, or five hooks, just described, you may fix 

 the necessary weight of shot or lead on the gimp, to 

 which the hooks are tied, if you prefer it to putting 

 them on the traces or trolling line, because you put on 

 and off those hooks to the traces or line, the gimp not 



