CHAPTER II. 
Spin slowly—Strike Jack sharply—Artificial baits for Jack 
—Jack caught with dead bait not in motion—* Kill-devils” 
—on the Wandle—in Devonshire—in Salt-water—Spoon- 
baits—India-rubber balls for floating off live-bait—Double 
live-bait tackle—“Gag” and “Executioner” for Jack— 
Live-ground-batting. 
F you have fine tackle and a good bait, I am 
persuaded you can scarcely spin too slowly. 
In working over a shallow you will find, that by 
raising the point of your rod you will generally be 
enabled to keep the bait off the bottom, without 
in any great degree, and, if you have not much 
line out, without at all accelerating the speed at 
which you are fishing. When spinning with an 
artificial bait the pace may perhaps be greater, as 
otherwise the fish may detect the imposition. As 
to slow spinning, the following circumstance would 
tend to prove my theory :—I was spinning, from a 
punt, down the reach of the Thames just above 
Maidenhead, where the stream is not particularly 
rapid, and not more than four or five feet deep, 
