SPINNING AND BAIT I^ISHING. 



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tageously employed. [For ' Baiting ' instructions and general 

 observations on this flight, see p. 381.] The loach mates one 

 of the very best lake trolling baits, but except in the smallest 

 sizes— little above minnow-size, in fact — the 'Dee' flight will 



FIG. I. FIG. 2. 



'pennell' minnow-spinning flight. 



not spin it, or any other bait, properly, but produces an 

 eccentric sort of 'wobble ' rather than a spin. My own flight 

 is applicable to all sizes, and gives a much more brilliant spin. 

 The ' slenderer ' the loach the better it ' spins.' ^ 



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1 The loach, as I have observed, is one of the very best spinning baits for 

 all sorts of lake trolling. The way to catch him is to walk up the middle of a 

 shallow pool or stream where he abides, carrying in your hand a three-pronged 

 dinner-fork. Armed with this you turn over with your left hand any flat 

 tempting-looking stones under which the loach, or • beardie,' as he is some- 

 times called, usually has his habitat ; his nose or tail will very likely be seen 



