CHAPTER II, 



Spin slowly Strike Jack sharply Artificial baits for Jack 

 Jack caught with dead bait not in motion "Rill-devils" 

 on the Wandle in Devonshire in Salt-water Spoon- 

 baits India-rubber balls for floating off live-bait Double 

 live-bait tackle " Gag" and "Executioner" for Jack 

 Live-ground-baiting. 



TF you have fine tackle and a good bait, I am 

 " persuaded you can scarcely spin too slowly. 



In working over a shallow you will find, that by 

 raising the point of your rod you will generally be 

 enabled to keep the bait off the bottom, without 

 in any great degree, and, if you have not much 

 line out, without at all accelerating the speed at 

 which you are fishing. When spinning with an 

 artificial bait the pace may perhaps be greater, as 

 otherwise the fish may detect the imposition. As 

 to slow spinning, the following circumstance would 

 tend to prove my theory : I was spinning, from a 

 punt, down the reach of the Thames just above 

 Maidenhead, where the stream is not particularly 

 rapid, and not more than four or five feet deep, 



