TROUT RIVER AND LAKE MINNOW-SPINNING. [21 
selected according to the size of the bait used. For my own 
part I have always given the preference to small rather 
than large baits, and the flight of hooks recommended for 
Thames Trout-spinning (fig. 1, Plate, p. 116), baited with 
a small Trout, will commonly be found the most killing 
bait and tackle. (For directions as to baiting, see 
chapter on Pike-spinning.) Although the tackle is thus 
similar, the mode of using it differs entirely: as a rule, 
in spinning for Trout or Pike in rivers, the bait is 
worked by the movement of the hand and rod combined, 
the line being drawn in at each cast; in lake-spinning, 
on the contrary, the bait is almost invariably ¢razled 
behind the boat, the rod doing the work alone. 
The secret of success in spinning for the great Lake 
Trout lies principally in four points—time, depth, speed, 
and place, thus— 
Time.—As atule, begin fishing at the time when other 
people are leaving off—that is, about six o'clock P.M. 
From this hour until midnight Lake Trout may be 
caught. 
Depth—lInstead of weighting the tackle to spin the 
bait at some 3 feet from the surface, lead it so as to 
sink to within about the same distance from the dottom, 
be the depth what it may. Both for this purpose, and 
in order to keep the bait at a distance from the boat, it 
is almost indispensable that from 40 to 60 yards of line 
should be let out from the reel. 
Speed.—Let the boat be rowed slowly, rather than 
