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the water as you can throw. When you have a 

 run, let the fish move off with your bait, and strike 

 as before directed. 



Yery various are the methods of handling the 

 gorge-bait. Generally speaking they are anti- 

 quated and slovenly. The tackle I have just 

 mentioned will answer admirably, but you may 

 troll in wide waters with a larger rod than the one 

 I have described. Your salmon rod will do when 

 you have no other, and find yourself amongst the 

 pike-lochs or lakes of our own country or amidst 

 those of any other. Mr. Blaine on this subject 

 says, " The plain pillar-reel is certainly the safest 

 for very heavy fish ; but, nevertheless, if the 

 angler uses a multiplier on the best principle, it 

 will wind up in all ordinary cases without clogging, 

 and as fast as can be wanted. For the giving out 

 of line it will of course answer, as the hand can 

 readily assist it. The ground-line, however, may 

 be used with advantage when, instead of a trolling 

 rod, a ferruled stick is employed, of three or four 

 feet long; and it is more useful sometimes even 

 than a rod, in trolling from a boat, or from the 

 high bank of any wide river. From such a height, 

 with the trolling stick in the right hand, a quan- 

 tity of loose line lying by the side, in regular 

 coils, when baited and being passed through the 

 ferrule or end ring, and the bait dangling on a 

 portion of the line not more than two feet long, 



