Ps Fe Ul, 
« TROLLING,”’—OR PIKE-FISHING. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
THE term “to troll” or “trolling” had no doubt its 
derivation in the Welsh words “ troell,’ a wheel or reel, 
“trol,” a roller, and in its less specific application means 
to move circularly or in a rollicking kind of way. Ina 
general sense, therefore, any bait which is moved or 
worked in the fashion indicated might without in- 
accuracy be termed a trolling bait, and hence the word 
has been of late years frequently applied to all 
kinds of spinning, whether for Pike, Perch, Trout or 
other fish. In its more strictly legitimate sense how- 
ever, trolling has, since the time of Hobbes, who was 
christened the Father of trollers, been considered as 
especially applicable to Pike-fishing, and even, by way 
of an zmperitum in tmperio, specifically to the method 
otherwise known as gorge-bait fishing. If the suffrages 
of modern anglers were collected, I think it would be 
