392 SALMON AND TROUT. 
rather the run of a trout. Having taken it, he will frequently 
remain nearly or quite motionless for some little time, and 
then move quietly away.’ This is the moment to strike, with 
a quick, tightening pull, and as the bait is almost always actu- 
ally swallowed or pouched, there is little fear of the fish being 
missed. Should he move away at once after biting, line must 
be given him and time allowed to pouch the bait. 
To provide against sudden moves or rushes on the part of 
the fish, and unintentional checks on that of the fisherman, it 
is a wise precaution always to keep a yard or two of spare line 
loose ‘in hand.’ A jack rod and a spinning line, or a salmon 
rod with a short stiff top, will answer every purpose for this 
sort of worm tackle. It is, however, at best a clumsy and 
rather uninviting mode of fishing, both from the number of 
worms with which it is necessary to bait, and also from the 
fact of the hook being in most cases ‘ gorged’ before the fish is 
struck. This deprives the whole business, in my opinion, of 
much of its interest as a sport, as when a fish cannot by 
any reasonable probability escape, the skill and excitement of 
landing him are reduced to a minimum. 
There is, however, another method of worm fishing with 
which I have had splendid sport, both with salmon and bull trout, 
when fly fishing was, from one or other of the reasons already 
stated, utterly hopeless. And I may here remark, parentheti- 
cally, that such are the conditions to which I should be dis- 
posed myself to limit the use of the worm as a bait for these 
fish, or, at any rate, for the former. 
This method, which, until I adopted it, and published the 
successful results of my fishing with it, was unpractised, so far 
as I am aware, and at any rate ‘unpreached’ by masters of 
the craft, is, in my judgment, as superior to the system above 
described, both in its practice and results, as spinning is in 
advance of gorge baiting. The principle of this mode of 
fishing is, in fact, almost identical with that employed in 
ordinary brown-trout fishing with my two-hook worm tackle, 
the difference being the size of the hooks and the substitution 
