Trout Spinning and Trolling. 



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a rapid spinner. It would be 

 difficult to predict which would 

 prove to be the favourite probably 

 the one that first comes in sight of 

 a hungry fish. In trolling there 

 is no need for striking ; the move- 

 ment of the boat will be quite 

 sufficient to effect the prelimi- 

 naries in that operation, the trout 

 will do the rest. It is best to set 

 the rods athwart in the boat, 

 taking care that the reel is in 

 running order when a fish does 

 come. The rod should be care- 

 fully lifted to play him, any jam- 

 ming of the line with the fingers 

 will probably mean the snapping 

 of the gut like packthread and 

 the perishing of a great hope. 

 Be calm and collected, and he 

 will be yours in all probability. 

 If you do lose him, the sense of 

 loss will not be intensified by the 

 knowledge of your own bungling. 

 Worming for trout is only justi- 

 fiable where neither fly-fishing 

 nor spinning is possible. In a 

 mountain burn in spate one may 



have a good time among the 

 four-to-a-pound speckled beau- 

 ties. They are usually plentiful, 

 and in no other way can they be 

 caught. Worming with Stewart 

 tackle is a more difficult branch 

 of the art, and needs a good deal 

 of practice. The tackle can be 

 easily procured, which consists of 

 three hooks tied one above the 

 other on a gut link. The worm 

 is impaled in such a way as to 

 hang in loops, and in this extended 

 fashion proves particularly attrac- 

 tive to fario. Low, clear water, 

 and a hot day are the favourable 

 conditions to use it effectively. 

 Waders must be donned and the 

 angler proceed up stream, casting 

 as long a line as he can and 

 drawing the worm through the 

 water in a sunken fly fashion. 

 The moment he feels a fish or 

 sees a break he strikes, and seldom 

 misses hooking his quarry, al- 

 though a good many stones and 

 weeds are likely to be hooked in 

 mistake for him. 



