30 INSTRUCTIONS IN SPINNING. 



CHAPTER IV. 



INSTRUCTIONS IN SPINNING THROWING THE BAIT 

 STRIKING, PLAYING, AND LANDING THE FISH. 



IF you use the natural fish, be careful how 

 you bait your spinning tackle with it. The 

 difficulty attached to putting on a bait properly 

 often deters persons from spinning who would 

 otherwise do so, as it is not a very easy ope- 

 ration for a beginner; but practice, and a 

 careful attention to the preceding directions, 

 will soon overcome these little difficulties. 



To throw the spinning-bait, draw from your 

 winch as much line as you require to reach the 

 distance you intend to throw it ; about fifteen 

 or sixteen yards will be sufficient to commence 

 with ; when you can get that length of line 

 out well, then increase it a yard or two at a 

 time. A first-rate spinner can throw from 

 forty to fifty yards of line, or even more ; but 

 on no account have out more line than you can 

 conveniently manage. -The extra line will 

 only be in your way, and if you are fishing 

 from the bank will be sure to catch up pieces 

 of twigs and grass. Having unwound suffi- 

 cient line from your winch, let it fall in loose 

 coils by your foot on your left side, and hold- 

 ing the rod firm in your right hand about 

 eighteen inches up the butt (to the socket 

 of which should be fastened a large button), 



