SPINNING AND BAIT FISHING. 407 
tageously employed. [For ‘Baiting’ instructions and general 
observations on this flight, see p. 381.] The loach makes one. 
of the very best lake trolling baits, but except in the smallest 
sizes—little above minnow-size, in fact—the ‘ Dee’ flight will 
FIG. I. FIG, 2, 
‘ PENNELL’ MINNOW-SPINNING FLIGHT. 
not spin it, or any other bait, properly, but produces an 
eccentric sort of ‘wobble’ rather than a spin. My own flight 
is applicable to all sizes, and gives a much more brilliant spin. 
The ‘slenderer’ the loach the better it ‘spins.’! 
1 The loach, as I have observed, is one of the very best spinning baits for 
all sorts of lake trolling. The way to catch him is to walk up the middle of a 
shallow pool or stream where he abides, carrying in your hand a three-pronged 
dinner-fork, Armed with this you turn over with your left hand any flat 
tempting-looking stones under which the loach, or ‘ beardie,’ as he is some- 
times called, usually has his 4ad/¢a¢; his nose or tail will very likely be seen 
