JANUARY 



29 



broad from the bank. I have always found a man 

 advisable, as the methods here advocated will require 

 one man's attention devoted almost entirely to the 

 management of the boat ; and, if a large fish be hooked, 

 he should then be able to get the boat at once under 

 way and follow up the fish. The boat used should be 

 broad and stable, the flat-bottomed local craft being 

 especially suited to the work. A good 561b. weight and at 

 least twenty-five fathoms of line should be stowed away 

 in the bows. For spinning the rod should be prefer- 

 ably light and springy, but not whippy, as the natural 



Fig. 23. 



A. Fishing Gazette Spinning Lead. 



B. Jardine Lead, bent to prevent kinking. 



I cannot recommend artificial bait used is small. 

 The winch should carry one hundred yards of line, the 

 first fifty of which should be dressed if the line be 

 coiled down or may be Nottingham silk, if the casting 

 be done from the winch. 



The trace should be best salmon gut, six to eight feet 

 long, and should carry at least a double and two single 

 swivels. If lead is used the Fishing Gazette or Jardine 

 patterns are best. 



A flight upon which the bait is threaded is the one 

 most suitable for the work : it consists of a triangle 

 with a moveable lip-hook on about eight or ten inches of 



