128 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
of the size of flight which will generally be found most 
suitable for Trout on the Thames. It is also a very 
usefui flight for Pike in hot summer weather when the 
water is low and bright. 
Directions for baiting are given in the chapter on 
Pike-spinning. 
Unlike Jack, Trout are very frequently in the habit of 
“taking short,” as the puntsmen phrase it—that is, 
seizing the bait by the tail instead of by the head, or 
from laziness or shyness making their dash a little 
behind rather than before it. In order to meet this 
peculiarity, and to render the killing powers of the 
above flight as deadly in the case of Trout as they 
are in that of Pike, I use for Trout-spinning an addi- 
tional flying triangle, tied on a separate link of twisted 
gut (see Engraving, fig. 2), which can at pleasure be 
attached to or disengaged from the ordinary flight by 
being passed over the tail-hook from the point. This 
triangle flies loose from the bait in the position indicated ' 
by the dotted outline A (fig. 1), and will be found to act 
as a powerful argument against any sudden change of 
mind or loss of appetite on the part of a pursuing Trout. 
The size of the hooks, length of gut, &c., drawn in the 
engraving, are of the proper proportion for a flight of the 
size shown. They should be enlarged or diminished pro- 
portionably as flights of a larger or smaller size are used. 
Elasticity, or it may be paradoxically described “ stiff- 
ness,” is absolutely essential to the proper action of this 
