34 THE AET OF FISHING. 



from the spot till you shall have fished as far as 

 you can reach. 



Upon the subject of trolling and snapping, little 

 more need be said than has been already laid 

 down in this and the foregoing chapter, save only 

 perhaps as regards the reel, which, to prevent 

 the line from ever entangling, should be a very 

 simple one; certainly not brass, with the wheel 

 enclosed (the old-fashioned pattern): it should 

 be, on the contrary, a naked wheel, with a broad 

 circumference, wherein should be cut a groove 

 sufficiently wide to hold a line of about thirty-five 

 or forty yards or more long. Box-wood perhaps 

 would be the best to make it of. Your line 

 should have a portion of hair in it, whether it be 

 silk or twine, that it may not stick to your rod in 

 wet weather, and it should be prepared with a 

 sort of copal varnish. 



