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"click" action is put on at will by a movable spring, 

 something after the style of the old spring stop reels. In 

 the varying methods of angling now followed, a tool that 

 can be regulated to any degree of action required is far 

 preferable to a set contrivance, admitting of no alteration 

 at will. These winches* are now made with steel centers. 



CHAPTEE VI. 



PIKE FISHING. 



SPINNING, f THE ROD AND LINE; ARTIFICIAL BAITS, HOW TO USE 



THEM; FISHING STORY; LIVE BAIT FISHING; FLY AND 



"FROG" FISHING. 



The greedy, ferocious, and excessively gluttonous na- 

 ture of this, " the fell tyrant of the liquid plain," has 

 been pointed out by angling authors both ancient and 

 modern. We shall, therefore, confine ourselves to the 

 most approved methods now in use for its capture. These 

 may be enumerated thus, viz. : Spinning, Live Bait, and 

 Dead Gorge Fishing or Trolling, and Fly Fishing. There 

 is scarcely any limit to the expedients adopted for killing 

 pike; frogs, mice, worms, etc., in fact, bait of every 



* " Winch " and " reel " are synonymous terms with English anglers. 

 The former seems to be applied to metal reels only, and the latter to 

 wooden ones, or more, particularly to the one used by Nottingham 

 fishermen, which, however, is occasionally made of metal. 



t "Spinning," as described in this chapter, is performed by casting 

 the bait, natural or artificial, on the rod, from the banks of a stream. 

 The English method of doing this is somewhat similar to that used by 

 the striped-bass casters of this country, which is known as the Cutty- 

 hunk style. The rod, however, is given more of a sweeping movement, 

 and the bait, in the act of casting, is pendant five to eight feet from the 

 rod-tip. The Thames or Trent method is to coil the line at the feet of 



