6 SPINNING-TACKLE : 



favour of spinning, that whilst every other 

 fishing excepting always the fly is de- 

 pendent upon the supply of baits to be 

 procured, spinning may be advantageously 

 practised, with artificial appliances, in locali- 

 ties where natural baits are not obtainable. 



Spinning is, moreover, much less liable to 

 be affected by changes of wind and weather 

 than either fly-fishing or bottom-fishing, and, 

 as a consequence, the averages of the year's 

 baskets are proportion ably less variable. 

 The spinner is seldom obliged to return 

 home entirely empty-handed. Partly from 

 the cause above mentioned, and in a greater 

 degree owing to the very large extent of 

 water which may be fished in a day's work, 

 an individual, at least, of the pike species, 

 may generally be induced " by hook or by 

 crook" to exchange his native element for 

 one less suited perhaps to his tastes, though 

 more congenial to ours. 



The operations of the live-bait or the 



