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quated and slovenly. The tackle I have just 

 mentioned will answer admirably, but you may 

 troll in wide waters with a larger rod than the one 

 I have described. Your salmon-rod will do when 

 you have no other, and find yourself amongst the 

 pike-lochs or lakes of our own country or amidst 

 those of any other. 



The bait with a ten or twelve feet troll ing-rod 

 can be thrown sixty yards or farther. But these 

 long casts or throws are of no use generally, and 

 in making them, as trollers do for parade sake, 

 the bait is injured, and after it has fallen into the 

 water it cannot be put into anything like natural 

 motion for some time. Shorter casts are more 

 effective. Indeed, unless when you wish to reach 

 some far-off spot having some especial attraction, 

 do not cast farther at any time than from twenty 

 to thirty yards. That distance you can handily 

 manage by casting your bait skew-ways to it, 

 causing it to enter the water slantingly ; and you 

 can gather up your line before your bait has 

 sunk to the bottom of the water, or got injured 

 by hitching in any obstruction there. The truth 

 is, a trolling-rod can be very easily made. One 

 of those long tapering canes, sixteen or eighteen 

 feet long, specimens of which you see as signs, 

 shooting upwards and over the streets, at fishing- 

 tackle makers' shops, will, by adding to it half a 

 dozen large rings, make an efficient trolling or 



