1 8 MODERN TRACTICAL ANGLER. 



the " spinning," not one in a hundred of those that have 

 come under my notice has been in the least calculated 

 to make a bait spin properly. 



In order to ascertain the best combination of hooks, 

 &c. for this purpose, I carefully experimented upon 

 every part of the spinning flight and trace ; including 

 the number, shape, size, and arrangement of the hooks, 

 leads, and swivels, with the various materials out of 

 which a trace can be composed, in every case carefully 

 testing theory by practice, and sparing no pains or 

 trouble to obtain reliable results. The several arrange- 

 ments of spinning flights which these experiments 

 proved to be most suitable to the different varieties 

 of baits and flsh are given in the chapters devoted 

 to each. Some of the flights have already been de- 

 scribed in my former works and are now very generally 

 used. 



Kinking. 



If the large proportion of fish lost was one great 

 drawback to the popularity of spinning, " kinking," or 

 the twisting up of the line into knots and loops, was cer- 

 tainly a still greater one. Trollers generally imagined 

 that kinking was the fault of the running line, or its 

 dressing ; and all their attention was accordingly 

 concentrated on these points, which, however im- 

 portant in other respects, had seldom anything to do 

 with the real question. The vice lay not in the line 



