24 THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 



REMARKS ON TROLLING. 



iThe season for trolling commences in July, 

 and continues to the end of February, when 

 the sportsman discontinues taking Jack, Pike 

 and Perch, they being then full of spawn. 

 These fish will certainly take a bait very free 

 in March and April, and are in good con- 

 dition for the table, but the angler is not al- 

 lowed to troll for them in any of the subscrip- 

 tion waters. 



The most likely places to find Jack and 

 Pike are near the end of scowers, and in deep 

 eddies, in tumbling-bays, and where there is 

 a bend and deep still water in a river, and near 

 beds of land-dock weeds ; also at the mouths 

 of ditches or streams that empty themselves 

 into rivers or ponds, and near flood-gates, 

 and bull-rushes in lakes, canals, &c. 



Trolling has some advantages over other 

 modes of angling, for when the weather is 



