302 Fisnmnc iw American WATERS. 
All fishes of the genus Salmo are more readily captured by 
trolling with natural baits, such as the shiner or the smelt, 
which is the salmon’s natural food, to a troll formed of 
burnished silver, with the hook disguised by gay feathers, 
while all families of the pike and perch prefer the feathered 
squid. For trolling, the black bass preters live bait; but in 
July he will bite at almost any gay fly, if artistically pre- 
sented. 
The troll is the most killing method of angling short of the 
net and the pound, and yet it is not nearly so popular in 
America asin Europe. An American gentleman would hard- 
ly consent to troll for salmon, and yet in both Scotland and 
Ireland they cross-fish for them by two row-boats carrying 
each an angler with trolling-rods, and the lines of each angler 
are connected at the ends, where a float marks the division. 
To each line numerous flies are attached, and the boats are 
rowed along at a convenient distance, and when a salmon 
bites, the angler on which side of the float the fish is fastened 
reels and plays the salmon, while the other angler gives line, 
If the oarsmen, who eaff the fish, get nervous, a snarl of lines 
and hooks, and a loss of the fish, are results quite naturally 
expected and frequently realized. 
SPOON-VICTUALS FOR LONG-SNOUTS. 
The larger sizes of feathered spoons are preferred in troll- 
ing for the maskinongé and the great Northern pickerel, as 
also for the glass-eyed pike. The difference in the two styles 
of troll is illustrated by A and B. Troll A revolves on a 
shoulder, to which two hooks are first wound with brass-wire, 
then soldered. On the shank, as represented, feathers are 
mounted. Decisive colors are to be preferred, sweh as red 
and white. Sometimes two swivels, one at the shank of the 
hook and the other at the end of the gimp snell, six inches 
above, are used to prevent the rapidity of the action of the 
troll from kinking the line. 
Troll B is so arranged that different fly-hooks may be 
