196 MERITS OF SPINNING. 



In small brooks and rivulets it is not so ; you may 

 fish in them again within a week or less after the 

 flood." 



SPINNING. 



Next to fly-fishing, spinning is the most amusing 

 mode of angling. It is a dashing, killing method, 

 and the practice of it requires considerable mus- 

 cular exertion. The arms in casting, and the legs 

 in moving on and changing ground, are continually 

 and strongly called into requisition. Trout, pike, 

 and perch of all sizes, but generally speaking the 

 largest, are caught by spinning, Salmon, in my 

 opinion, and in that of a few others, are to be 

 taken by spinning with a real bait or an artificial 

 one. English travellers, carrying with them into 

 foreign lands their sporting propensities, have been 

 very successful in the lakes of Northern Italy, and 

 in those of Germany, in taking immense trout by 

 means of the spinning tackle. This I know from 

 authentic private correspondence. In America, 

 whether in the United States or in Canada, im- 

 mense trout and pike have been taken by spinning. 

 At our own doors we know, that generally speak- 

 ing, all the large Thames trout are taken with the 

 spinning tackle. It is active angling, not of course 

 so refined as fly-fishing, but it deserves every 



