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this season, every favourable day should be embraced by 

 the lovers of trolling, during the period above alluded to. 

 Jack and Pike will continue to take a bait in March, but 

 as they are then very full, and their spawn being also 

 unfit for food, the gentleman sportsman will surely now 

 desist from trolling. 



The most favourable weather for trolling is when a 

 smartish breeze blows from the South to West, and the 

 day cloudy or dull ; at such times keep the wind at your 

 back and the water in front ; but if the water and weather 

 is very bright, fish against the wind. From September to 

 the beginning of November, Jack and Pike will take a 

 bait best from ten o'clock till one, and again from three 

 till dusk; but after the nights become very long and cold 

 the angler should then prefer the middle and warmest 

 parts of the day, for at that season of the year, neither 

 Jack or any other fish will move much at any other time. 

 Thick water is not favourable for trolling, for during a 

 flood, which causes a coloured water, Jack and Pike keep 

 very close in shore among the sags or rushes which lay 

 near the banks, or in the still bends of rivers, to keep out 

 of the heavy waters and rapid currents, where they 

 remain stationary until the waters clear and subside. The 

 angler who then chooses to try .for them must troll close, 

 even to the touching of those sags and rushes, or he will 

 seldom move a fish; but immediately the water clears 

 comes the troller's turn, for the Jack and Pike having 

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