CHAPTER XV. 
TACKLE AND OUTFIT. 
This chapter is entirely practical. It is 
written only for the fisherman who means to 
fish for dorado, and it is to be skipped by all 
other readers. Let me say also that it is written 
from small, though perhaps intense, experience, 
and that it is confined to the Alto-Parana, at a 
point near the southern tropic. Many of its 
directions, however, were obtained from sports¬ 
men whose knowledge is much longer and wider 
than mine, and will I believe be found generally 
useful. I know how much I should have been 
saved by information such as follows. 
Dorado are caught by spinning. True, I 
have heard of their taking the fly, and no doubt 
a large fly, gold or silver bodied, would attract 
them. But remember that the fly must be 
attached to something they cannot bite through, 
and this must be piano wire, and I am not sure 
that a heavy wire trace mates effectively with 
the delicacy of a fly rod. You had better go in 
for spinning at once; and indeed spinning is the 
obvious and practical method of taking them. 
