CHAPTER VI. 



PRACTICAL ANGLING. 



THERE are, besides fly-fishing, in its great varieties, 

 two descriptions of angling namely, BOTTOM-FISHING, 

 which is practised with a baited hook, plied either 

 upon or near to the bottom ; and TROLLING, in which 

 the line is used without a float, and the bait is trolled 

 about in the water. 



Of these two descriptions of taking fish, bottom - 

 fishing is by far the most sportsmanlike, trolling being 

 a killing process, which nothing ought to reconcile one 

 to, but the want of proper tackle for bottom -fishing, or 

 the demand of a good dish of trout for the table. 



Let me now proceed to give some directions for pur- 

 suing each of these modes of fishing. Of the latter, 

 first. 



