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rod, and not less that forty from the other. By 

 this means, should a fish not see the first lure, 

 he may see the second. If trolling with natural 

 minnow, which is much more apt to get out of 

 order than artificial ones, see that the bait is in- 

 tact and spinning properly. This involves the 

 trouble of hauling it in for examination now 

 and then ; but it is better to be at that trouble 

 than be fishing with, mayhap, a mangled lure, 

 or one that has got out of spinning order, and 

 more likely to act as a repellent than an attrac- 

 tion to any fish in the neighbourhood. In 

 trolling any likely ground, the proper way is 

 to tell your man to zigzag it, not pulling the 

 boat in a straight line, but going over the 

 ground diagonally, and thus covering as much 

 of it as it is possible to do with a couple score 

 yards of line behind. The turning of the boat 

 necessitates a considerable circle being taken 

 to keep the lures spinning, and so that the 

 lines do not get mixed up ; and your man, 

 after making the turn, should row in a slightly 

 slanting direction towards the point from which 

 he originally started, thus 



