90 ANGLING. 



would get out of spinning, and that I either had to be con- 

 stantly hauling in some forty or fifty yards of line to see 

 how it worked, or I had to chance its wobbling, when per- 

 haps for half an hour no fish would look at it, until it was 

 corrected. Thereupon I set my wits to work. I had by 

 me a fan made of German silver, which was sent to me by 

 some tackle maker, and which worked on the gut, and slid 

 up and down so as to jam tightly when pressed down on 

 the head of the hook. I made me a tackle somewhat like 

 the one last depicted, only the big hook was a bit smaller 

 and shorter in the shank. The hooks being baited, the tail 

 is not crooked, but the big hook comes out about two- 

 thirds down, as shown in Plate 3, Fig. 6, and then the fan 

 is pushed on down to the shank of the lip hook, and 

 jammed tight there. This form of tackle not only spins 

 beautifully, but it always spins and never gets out of 

 order. For trailing, in lake fishing, no tackle can beat 

 this. 



Now suppose that your rod is ready, and your tackle 

 baited, the ordinary plan in a largish stream is to wade, if 

 you cannot command the stream without, and to cast down 

 stream towards either bank of the river, drawing across 

 stream, in a bend round towards the opposite side, and 

 then repeating the cast in the opposite direction ; look at 

 Fig. 7, Plate 3, thus a man standing at " a " casts first 

 towards " b," and draws round the dotted line to about 

 " d," then he casts towards " e," and draws round towards 

 " f." Some persons, particularly if fishing with an arti- 

 ficial minnow, which cannot be deranged, cast over head, 

 fly-fashion, as they can cast more line that way ; but with 

 the natural bait this is apt to derange it, and spoil its 

 spinning. The casts, therefore, are chiefly made under- 

 hand. These, from the nature of things, in the ordinary 



