CH. I1.] SPIN SLOWLY—STRIKE JACK SHARPLY. 19 
(and which had, by the bye, been fished over 
and over again the same season, and several 
times the same day,) when my line, which was a 
new one, becoming kinked, I ceased pulling in 
altogether whilst clearing it, at the same time 
raising my rod almost to the perpendicular, to 
keep my bait off the bottom. Having been in this 
position some little time—for the kink was rather 
a complicated one—I felt a tug, but concluded it 
must have been a weed floating down stream, and 
took no notice of it. It was, however, almost im- 
mediately repeated, when I instinctively struck, 
and found to my surprise that it proceeded from 
“no waiter, but a Knight Templar,’ a good Trout 
of over three pounds, which I got safely into the 
landing-net. 
You will not often err, when spinning, in 
striking a Jack too sharply. He gets the bait 
across his mouth with his big teeth well into it, 
and nothing short of a good tug will move it so 
as to get the hooks into him. And the bigger 
the fish, the more this applies. You feel the fish 
come at you. You striké him lightly, as you 
would a Trout,—feel he is on, and think all is 
right. However, just as you begin to think of 
playing him, and draw him towards you, you have 
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