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fish are lost by the nervous feeling, which shoots 

 through the young angler when he perceives the 

 first rush of a trout, or flinches from, or starts 

 to it, than by any other course whatever. If 

 nothing of this kind takes place, the trout sees no 

 cause of alarm, and there need be no fear on the 

 angler's part, but that he will himself strike the 

 fish at the regular pace at which he attempted to 

 overtake it ; and that being done, it only remains 

 for the fisher to fix the hook, or hooks, within its 

 mouth by a smart stroke from the hand, if possi- 

 ble, in a direction contrary to the progress of the 

 fish." 



Colonel Hawker's spinning tackle, which is 

 made by Mr. Bowness, late Chevalier, of No. 12. 

 Bell-yard, Temple-bar, is an excellent one, having 

 only one fault, viz. that young anglers will find 

 it rather complicated, and difficult to place the 

 bait neatly upon it. I can vouch for its spinning 

 well, and killing well. Let it be made of a large 

 size, and it will answer admirably for spinning 

 with dace and roach for the largest species of 

 predatory river fish. In introducing this spinning 

 tackle the celebrated Colonel observes, " Trolling 

 or spinning a minnow is a most general mode of 

 trout fishing ; or, I might almost say, trout poach- 

 ing. 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 



