88 ANGLING. 



abounds, or where the eddy is likely to carry its food. In 

 winter it prefers the backwaters and eddies, and in summer 

 I have watched them just outside the run of the streams. 



CHAPTER XI. 



FISHING IN MID-WATER. 



Spinning for Pikd New Tackle The reunell Flight SirAing 

 and Roving Fishing with the Snap-Tackle, &c. 



ANOTHER, and indeed the most popular method of angling 

 in mid-water for pike, is spinning. It has all the advan- 

 tages of the old-fashioned trolling, and has the additional 

 attraction of affording much better sport. It may be said 

 to be to ordinary trolling what fly-fishing is to bottom-fish- 

 ing. It is to be preferred on all waters where there are 

 not too many weeds, bushes, snags, or similar obstructions 

 in the river. The trolling-rod will answer the purpose of 

 the spinner indeed they are identical for all practical pur- 

 poses. The reel and reel-line is the same : the bait is, 

 however, not only a different matter, but it is differently 

 presented on a different class of hooks. The veriest tyro in 

 angling must have seen in the tackle-shop windows imita- 

 tion fish of various sizes, and of still more diverse material, 

 armed with the most formidable-looking hooks standing 

 out, hanging to arms of wire, and other contrivances, until 

 the idea suggests itself how a fish, would dare to venture 

 near such a porcupinish monster. 



Let me explain the principle of the spinning tackle. The 



