382 SALMON AND TROUT. 
this flight will, I venture to think, commend itself to those 
who may give it a practical trial. 
Most of the flights ordinarily used for the purpose signally 
fail in the first cardinal requirement of making the bait spzz : 
their highest achievement is a ‘wobble’; and many of them 
are, moreover, so arranged as to necessitate a disengagement 
between the flight and the trace at every change of bait. 
The latter drawback involves a waste of time, and the former 
is likely to prove fatal to sport, especially with big fish, as a 
heavy salmon or trout will rarely follow a bait that is moving 
very fast away from him, nor, on the other hand, will he 
freely take one that is not spinning or rotating rapidly enough 
to conceal the hooks : ergo, with a ‘wobbly,’ or badly-spinning, 
bait, the choice lies between obtaining a spin by rowing too 
fast, or by rowing at the right pace to sacrifice the spin alto- 
gether. 
The flight I recommend gives, when properly adjusted, a 
really brilliant spin—not ‘ wobble ’—a spin so good that is, that 
it will serve its purpose when the boat is moving slow enough 
for the taste of the biggest and laziest of Sa/monide. There 
are, it will be seen, only two triangles and one lip-hook alto- 
gether, and they are in the right place—i.e. nearer the tail 
than the head ; the adjustment to the bait is easy and expedi- 
tious ; and no time is lost in detaching the flight from the 
trace (as in the ‘Dee’ and other minnow flights) when 
changing baits. But beyond these advantages, and equal, 
perhaps, in importance, is the transfer of the lead from the 
trace, where it is most conspicuous, to the belly of the bait, 
where it is invisible, and where, moreover, it both puts the 
weight exactly where it will do its maximum of work, and, 
at the same time, assists materially in producing the ‘spin.’ 
The same flight can, of course, be used minus the lead, but 
the spin is somewhat less brilliant, and apt on occasions to 
become irregular. Moreover, it is a rare and altogether ex- 
ceptional circumstance to meet with water deep enough for 
trolling at all, which is too shoal to admit of this small lead 
