170 EFFECT OF NERVOUS FEELING. 



never stop it, or in any way alter your pace, or 

 he will most likely be off again directly." More 

 fish are lost by the nervous feeling which shoots 

 through the young angler when he perceives the 

 first rush of a trout, or flinches from or starts 

 to it, than by any other course whatever. If 

 nothing of this kind takes place, the trout sees no 

 cause of alarm, and there need be no fear on the 

 angler's part but that he will himself strike the 

 fish at the regular pace at which he attempted 

 to overtake it ; and that being done, it only 

 remains for the fisher to fix the hook, or hooks, 

 within its mouth by a smart stroke from the hand, 

 if possible, in a direction contrary to the progress 

 of the fish.' 



Colonel Hawker's spinning-tackle is an excel- 

 lent one, having only one fault, viz., that young 

 anglers will find a difficulty in placing the bait 

 neatly upon it. I can vouch for its spinning 'well 

 and killing well. Let it be made of large size, 

 and it will answer admirably for spinning with 

 dace and roach for the largest species of predatory 

 river fish. In introducing this spinning-tackle, the 

 celebrated Colonel observes: ( Trolling or spinning 

 a minnow is a most general mode of trout-fishing, 

 or, I might almost say, trout-poaching. It is, 

 however, very rarely done in a proper manner, 

 though every man, as a matter of course, upholds 

 his own system. I, like all the rest, did the 



