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the bait approaches the water again recover control 

 of the reel by pressing a finger of the left hand against 

 the rim of your reel, until, as the bait touches the 

 water, you have stopped the reel action altogether. 

 You should then at once start winding in the line. 

 Casting from the reel is, of course, the better way, as 

 the fish is, when hooked, at once in play from the reel 

 instead of from loose coils ; but it is very much the 

 more difficult to learn owing to the tendency of the 

 reel to overrun. It is also more difficult to throw 

 accurately in the desired direction. Should you at 

 first when throwing from the reel find the bait travel 

 waywardly round you and become fast in the back of 

 your coat, it is not necessary to return home in order 

 to find some one to release it, as has been done. A 

 quicker way is to lay down the rod and take off your 

 coat." 



In the spinning thus succinctly described my 

 cousin, who is a most excellent fisherman, dwells 

 lightly on the difficulties to be overcome when spinning. 

 One lesson from any experienced spinner should be 

 enough ; practice will give accuracy and lightness to 

 anyone determined to succeed. 



In spinning for trout, therefore, in fine water, when 

 you expect to catch the class of trout you would take 

 with fly, the best way is to throw up-stream, and draw 

 down the rapids as quickly as possible, not using a 

 very long line. In fishing for pike, however, and the 

 large cannibal trout, the bait should be thrown across 

 and slightly up-stream, and worked as slowly as possible 



