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spinning rod, by means of which you can cast any 

 reasonable distance, and gather up your line the 

 moment your bait enters the water. Osier and 

 hazel nurseries will afford you long stout saplings 

 or shoots, which, if you cut them in winter, will 

 make useful trolling-rods. 



I advise the use of a moderate portion of lead 

 only on any part of the swivel-trace. If the gorge- 

 hook is properly leaded, it will be sufficient to 

 carry and sink the bait without any additional 

 weight more than that given by the swivels. The 

 generality of trollers use too much lead, and troll 

 with too much rapidity. The following trolling 

 axioms are selections from good authorities : 



Siviv el-traces are necessary in trolling, for by 

 their means it is that the bait revolves quickly, 

 and has communicated to it a troll or rolling mo- 

 tion, which assists greatly in attracting the notice 

 of predaceous fish. Some troll wholly without 

 swivel-traces ; but we are certain that so doing is 

 a manifest impediment to the spinning of the bait, 

 and we therefore strongly recommend these traces. 

 By means of the swivel-hook the great convenience 

 of readily disengaging the tackle is obtained ; but 

 it is to be noted that, in releasing it, the ardent 

 angler sometimes is violent and snaps his swivel, 

 which is a reason why he should never be without 

 spare swivels, or indeed without duplicates of all 

 the minor articles of fishing apparatus. 



