138 SPINNING FOR TROUT 



LONG-DISTANCE CASTING 



While not wishing to minimize the importance of 

 being able to cast a long line, and of successfully 

 hooking fish when doing so, this ability by no means 

 stamps any person as a good or skilful trout or salmon 

 fisherman. 



Unfortunately, we have at present no means of 

 deciding the championship other than by a test as to 

 distance in casting. 



Style, delicacy, accuracy, and variety should enter 

 into the competition, and points should be allowed 

 for each class. The greatest aggregate number of 

 points obtained should decide the championship. 



SPINNING FOR TROUT IN THE SUMMER MONTHS 



As many of my readers may possibly be anxious 

 to try spinning for trout, a few words on that 

 by no means easy method of taking fish may be 

 welcome. There is a great and distinctive difference 

 between the man who uses a minnow in the discoloured 

 waters of the early spring months, and allows the 

 tumble and rush of the river in which his lure is cast to 

 do the work for him, and the man who delights in the 

 difficulties of catching fish in dead, low, clear water, 

 with a natural minnow and a tackle consisting of at 

 most two triangles and a lip hook, and the finest of 

 traces. 



The greater difficulty and the more interest must 



