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CHAPTER VIII. 

 SPINNING FOR RAINBOW AND CUT-THROATS 



THIS chapter refers to spinning for cut-throat and rainbow 

 trout, quite apart from spinning for steelheads, which is 

 a separate form of fishing requiring a special outfit. 



As long as the water is in suitable condition, the majority 

 of good fishermen will stick to the fly; but unfortunately so 

 many of our streams on the coast are often just a bit too much 

 coloured, so that spinning is often a necessity unless you want 

 to stay at home. 



You need not have a special rod for this work if you have 

 a good, strong fly rod, or better still a short tip, as long casts 

 are seldom necessary and only light little spinners used, and 

 for such your ordinary trout reel will do quite well. 



The usual method of fishing is to draw off a few yards of 

 line from the reel, have the spinner the rod's length from the 

 tip, swing it well back and then make a side swing forward, 

 cast with a bit of a flip, at the same time releasing the slack 

 line, which should shoot out. 



If 3^011 are only using a very tiny spinner and have a 

 good rod, you can cast it in the same way you would a fly. 



Supposing, however, you are going to do much of this sort 

 of work and want to be able to make long casts, you must get 

 a regular trout spinning rod about eight or nine feet with a 

 single-handed spinning reel of three inches, such as a small 

 Malloch or Hardy's (Silex). Such a rod and reel would not 

 only be suitable for spinners but for a light Devon or Sankey 

 minnow and could be used for dolly varden fishing and lake 

 trolling. 



Baits. As a general thing the smaller the spinner the more 

 fish you will catch. You may possibly move more fish with a 

 larger spinner but they will come short and not actually take 

 it. There are hundreds of different makes of spinners, some 

 single and some double, but for all work a single No. l 1 /^ 

 Tacoma or Indiana with a single hook set about one inch back 

 and baited with a worm is about the best. 



Leads. As a rule you require little or no lead for cut- 

 throat and rainbow fishing. It is not necessary to fish deep, 

 a foot or a little more below the surface is plenty. If you are 

 fishing swift water and have to use lead to keep your spinner 

 down, use small buckshot. 



