246 CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS 



expertness and fish-sense of a high order. Just to 

 throw overboard a heavily weighted spoon and 

 troll anywhere, is not successful trolling, and is only 

 a space removed from the hand-line of by-gone days. 



Trolling with proper tackle in suitable water is a 

 very attractive method of angling. It is not the 

 contemplative man's recreation, but neither is 

 casting as for that. Both are hard work, success 

 crowning the man who works hardest and most 

 intelligently. Even when casting, a half hour spent 

 trolling brings welcome relief from the strain of the 

 former method, and sometimes the record fish of 

 the trip. There are days when bass lie deep, and 

 are unenticed by the splashing surface lures, even 

 shy of the cast underwater; then to troll an under- 

 water or spoon some 200 feet or so behind the 

 slowly moving boat will bring u net results. " With 

 light trolling tackle, once connected with a goodly 

 bronze-back, and only such ordir^arily take a troll, 

 the angler has all the sport of playing and netting 

 the fish that the caster has. 



Casting from a boat is seldom a one man sport, 

 the boatman being a necessary evil, but trolling can 

 properly be called the pastime for the man who 

 wishes to consort with himself and yet use artificial 

 lures. Granted that it is nice and easy and lazy to 

 have a muscular boatman at the oars, it is far and 

 away more satisfactory to propel the boat yourself. 

 The rod holder, while not absolutely essential, is a 



