ANGLING IN SALT WATER. 



skin at the end. Tlie boat should be worked backwards and 

 forwards across the tide, dropping lower each time the 

 channel is crossed. The force of the stream takes out the 

 line down the channel, and the fly, or bait, is thus presented 

 to the fish before the boat has gone over them. In trolling 

 for salmon on the Shannon, and other rivers, the boat is 

 usually worked after this fashion. When flies are thus trailed, 

 the boat should be rowed rather fast. 



Casting a spinning-bait from the shore is a very deadly 



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Fig. 49. Improved 

 Chapman Spin- 

 ner. 



Fig. 50. Sand-eel 

 ON Chapman 

 Spinner, 



Fig. 51. Sand-eel on Ordinary 

 Trailing Tackle. 



method of taking bass. Either the general rod, or the fly 

 rod with short top, may be used; the line must be dressed, 

 and not too stout, and the trace figured on page 31 is very 

 suitable for the purpose. The bait may be a sand-eel — which, 

 by the way, need not necessarily spin — or any small fish, 

 fixed on a Chapman spinner. Another very efficient flight 

 for small fish, but which necessitates the use of a baiting- 

 needle, is a large triangle at the end of a piece of gimp. 

 The needle is hooked in the loop of the gimp, inserted at 



