112 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



SPINNING FOR TROUT IN THE SUMMER MONTHS 



The scientific improvements which have been made in 

 spinning reels, rods, lines and lures, are rapidly bringing 

 that method of fishing more and more into popular favour. 



Spinning for trout, however, has not advanced so 

 rapidly as spinning for salmon, and the reason is not far 

 to seek. It lies in the fact that dry fly fishing for trout, 

 comparing it with fly fishing for salmon, is infinitely more 

 interesting. 



As certain of our rivers and streams hold trout whose 

 size renders their presence undesirable first, because their 

 food consists principally of members of their own species, 

 and secondly, because it does not consist of the flying 

 varieties of water insects a few words on that by no means 

 easy method of angling, viz., spinning for trout in the summer 

 months, may be welcome to my readers. 



I am not for the moment alluding to spinning for trout 

 during the colder months of the year. There is a great and 

 distinctive difference between the man who uses a minnow 

 in the discoloured water of the early spring months, and who 

 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 difficulty of catching his trout in the dead, low, clear 

 water of the summer time. The greater difficulty and 

 the more interest must centre in spinning during the summer, 

 and when the lure is used in clear water, in perhaps an 

 almost empty stream and in the blazing sun. The lure 

 may be used either in searching the shallows of our smaller 

 streams, or thrown far out beyond the reach of the dry fly 

 man and into the rapid runs and glides of our larger rivers ; 

 and whether it is the natural minnow with tackle consisting 

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

 which is extended by the rod from a slack line held in the 

 hand of the fisherman, or an artificial spinning minnow, 



