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strong current, which spins the bait better when the line 

 is long, and when the rod is very gradually moved, merely 

 to direct the bait across the stream. 



With the spinning-lait you will catch salmon in all its 

 varieties, fronts, perch, and jacks. Sometimes you will 

 iind a chub on your hook. This, however, is not the 

 ordinary habit of that fish 5 but, when very hungry, it will 

 snap at small fishes, and may, as I once experienced, be 

 thus taken. 



The jack is rather to be avoided in trolling with the 

 Spinning- 1- alt, on accoun of the imminent danger of your 

 line being cut by his very sharp teeth. If you should 

 hook one of such a size as to be governable, no time 

 should be lost in running him aground on a shelving 

 shore, keeping the line always straight forward out of his 

 mouth, both because he has least power in the fore teeth, 

 and to avoid making an angle, which would be aiding Li* 

 endeavours to sever your gut in two. 



Observe, that as all fish, in seizing a spinning-? nit, 

 direct their attacks towards its tail, viewing it a.- an'oHect 

 of pursuit, you need not be afraid of your tro Hi rig- hnok 

 being too long, so as to come out rather behind the vent, 

 where it will do most execution. 



Many a very large trout has, however, been taken 

 merely by the lip-hook : on such occasions, much skill is 

 requisite. Every angler ought to make allowance for the 

 possibility of such an attack, and to avoid all pulls and 

 jerks, such as either might tear out the hook, or, by irri- 

 tating the fish, cause him to make such efforts as would 

 produce his liberation. 



Indeed, it is by keeping the utmost command over your 



own liandj and by avoiding that childish propensity, too 



B 4 prevalent 



