CHAPTER IX. 



TROLLING. 



/~\UK readers will have guessed, from what 

 *r has preceded this chapter, that we don't 

 believe in trolling if it can be avoided ; but still 

 there are times and occasions on which it must 

 be practised, and we plead guilty to having 

 gone in for it oftener than once, when we saw 

 that fly-fishing was useless. On the other hand, 

 however, we have set out with a firm determin- 

 ation to do a fair day's trolling, and nothing 

 but trolling, but somehow or another it has 

 generally ended in fly-fishing when we could, 

 and trolling as a dernier ressort when we could 

 not. This, we doubt not, has been the experi- 

 ence of many of our angling friends to whom 

 the mere killing of fish is a secondary con- 



