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ledger are necessarily confined within com- 

 paratively narrow limits, and are thus more 

 dependent upon luck. Half a dozen reaches 

 or so, are as much as can well be fished in 

 the day with either of them, whilst, with the 

 spinning-bait, the likely " finds" in five or 

 six miles of water may be readily spun over 

 in the same time. 



These considerations, added to the lively 

 and continually varying nature of the sport, 

 have no doubt combined to make spinning 

 the favourite mode of Jack fishing with 

 scientific fishermen ; but as every pro has 

 its con, so there are many objections which 

 have been hitherto urged against it with 

 some truth, and which have probably pre- 

 vented its becoming as universally popular 

 as might otherwise have been the case. It 

 cannot be denied, for instance, that to 

 spin really successfully requires a larger 

 share of skill and practice than most other 

 modes of angling; that the tackle is ex- 



