Trout Spinning and Trolling. 



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but it is well to bear in mind that 

 there is nothing so natural as the 

 natural, and one only falls back on 

 anything else through necessity or 

 for the sake of variety. 



If trolling needed justification, 

 one has only to point to the Irish 

 loughs. There great lake trout 

 are caught in very deep water, 

 where it would be useless to fish 

 with the fly. It is doubtful if 

 these monsters ever leave the 

 depths even in the May-fly season. 



these haunts. One might troll 

 for a week in the deep water with- 

 out stirring a fish, but the man 

 who makes it his business to study 

 the ways of these big fellows is 

 generally successful in catching 

 them. 



The trolling rod should be 

 sufficiently stiff to hook a fish by 

 its own resistance, phis the motion 

 of the boat. A heavy sinker 

 must be used to get the bait well 

 down into the deep ; a reel easy 



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THAMES FLIGHT FOR NATURAL BAIT. 



Top Unmounted. Bottom Mounted. 



Eight to ten pound specimens 

 have been taken on the dap, but 

 twelve to sixteen pounders have 

 only been caught trolling. The 

 method differs from spinning in 

 using a boat and a much longer 

 line ; bait and tackle are similar. 

 The deep parts of the lake are the 

 places where the big trout lie. 

 They are usually deeps, however, 

 with sloping banks leading to 

 shallows, which the fish frequent 

 in search of food. A gillie must 

 be secured who is familiar with 



in the action, and large enough to 

 take 100 yards of line 40 to 50 

 will be let out in trolling, the 

 rest may be needed for a long 

 run made by a heavy fish. Two 

 rods are generally used, one with 

 a very small trout or a stone 

 loach mounted on a Thames flight 

 of hooks. The other is best 

 equipped with a natural bait 

 mounted on a small crocodile or an 

 Archer spinner. Thus equipped, 

 the trout has a choice of dishes, 

 one a wobbling bait, the other 



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