Trolling. 



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and so on, till the chances of raising a fish on 

 that beat are exhausted. 



Should a small fish come on, haul it in hand- 

 over-hand ; and the man must not stop rowing, 

 as the other minnow is out, and must be kept 

 spinning. If, however, a fish that needs play- 

 ing comes to you, you must seize the rod to 

 which he has come, and the boatman must 

 take the other, and wind in as fast as possible. 

 You should not commence winding in till the 

 other line is wound up so far as to preclude 

 the chance of the fish mixing up both lines 

 together. Barring the risk one runs of a seri- 

 ous mess, it is not a bad plan to troll from a 

 reel a cast of larger-sized flies than would be 

 used in ordinary fly-fishing. This line follows, 

 of course, in a straight track behind the boat, 

 and the minnows being considerably to right 



