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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



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Fig. 4. 



It is a good plan to cut off a ventral fin on one side, and a pec- 

 toral fin on the other, in order to make the bait glance and sail 

 about in a more eccentric and attractive manner. In order to 

 throw any distance, the line must be drawn off the reel and allowed 

 to rest in coils on the ground. Then with the bait hanging about 

 a yard and a half from the top of the rod, the butt of the latter on 

 the groin, supported by the right hand half-way up the butt, give 

 the rod a swing, and as the bait is impelled forward, loose the line 

 from the left hand, which has previously held it, and the bait will 

 shoot out, drawing the line through the rings until it reaches the 

 spot to which you have directed it. I have often thrown forty 



