16 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
CHAPTER JI, 
SPINNING TACKLE: FLIGHTS, LEADS, AND SWIVELS. 
Flights—Drawbacks to spinning: loss of fish; causes of losses; old- 
fashioned flights, flying triangles, new flights. Kinking—Causes of 
kinking, defective leads; the remedy, improved leads. Swivels— 
Number, arrangement ; double swivels, ‘ loop swivels.’ 
IN spinning, both for Pike, and for lake or Thames 
Trout, two great drawbacks were formerly experienced : 
one the large proportion of fish lost after being struck ; 
and another the “kinking,” or crinkling of the line, to 
which both sport and temper were not infrequently sacri- 
ficed. The average of fish lost after being struck with 
the old-fashioned tackle was computed at from fifty to 
sixty per cent.—an estimate which has been generally 
admitted to be under rather than over the mark, 
FLIGHTS. 
The above result was attributable mainly to the large 
number of hooks and triangles—the latter ranging from 
three to five—formerly employed on a good-sized flight, . 
These were not only useless, but distinctly mischievous, 
both as regards the spinning of the bait and the basket- 
ing of the fish when hooked. Upon the bait they acted 
