J.B. Bobbitt wrote:
Good one.

Try holding the rod a little higher just as you flick the bait out there.
And use better bait. Maybe a fly (try a fly-tying newsgroup).


Oh, I don't know. If it was a real troll, the wood almost certainly
would have been cherry and it would have still been stained. And some
kind of worry about the wood being 0.001" out of X would have been involved.