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TROLLING. 



THIS kind of angling is generally practised 

 from the middle of March till August ; at its 

 commencement it will kill fish at any time in 

 the day ; but when the summer is advanced, 

 and the rivers are become low and fine, it is 

 only to be used very early in the morning, or 

 late in the evening, unless the sun be much 

 clouded. The following extract is from COL. 

 HAWKER : 



"TROLLING, or spinning a minnow, is the 

 other most general mode of Trout fishing ; or, I 

 may almost say Trout poaching. It is however 

 very rarely done in a proper manner, though 

 every man, as a matter of course, upholds his 

 own system. I, like all the rest, did the same, 

 till after fancying for years, that I could chal- 

 lenge any one, was beat and laughed at by a 

 Trout killing divine. Now however, I have not 

 only got master of his plan, against which all 

 others that I had ever seen, read of, or heard of, 

 had no chance whatever. The great advantage 

 of it is, that it takes the Trout when they run 

 and bite short, without the minnow being the 

 least injured, or even 'touched by the fish. To 

 describe the tackle properly, without giving a 



