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selected according to the size of the bait used. For my own 

 part I have always given the preference to small rather 

 than large baits, and the flight of hooks recommended for 

 Thames Trout-spinning (fig. i, Plate, p. 1 16), baited with 

 a small Trout, wall commonly be found the most killing 

 bait and tackle. (For directions as to baiting, see 

 chapter on Pike-spinning.) Although the tackle is thus 

 similar, the mode of using it differs entirely : as a rule, 

 in spinning for Trout or Pike in rivers, the bait is 

 worked by the movement of the hand and rod combined, 

 the line being drawn in at each cast ; in lake-spinning, 

 on the contrary, the bait is almost invariably trailed 

 behind the boat, the rod doing the w^ork alone. 



The secret of success in spinning for the great Lake 

 Trout lies principally in four points — time, depth, speed, 

 and place, thus — 



Time. — As a rule, begin fishing at the time when other 

 people are leaving off— \\v2X is, about six o'clock P.M. 

 From this hour until midnight Lake Trout may be 

 caught. 



Depth. — Instead of weighting the tackle to spin the 

 bait at some 3 feet from the siLvfacc, lead it so as to 

 sink to within about the same distance from the bottom, 

 be the depth what it may. Both for this purpose, and 

 in order to keep the bait at a distance from the boat, it 

 is almost indispensable that from 40 to 60 yards of line 

 should be let out from the reel. 



Speed. — Let the boat be row^ed slozvly, rather than 



