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WHY PRESENT-DAY ARTIFICIALS ARE 



INEFFECTIVE AN^) NOT POPULAR 



WITH EXPERT ANGLERS 



Readers are invited to compare this chapter 

 and the chapter-head drawing with certain de- 

 tails given throughout this volume of the advan- 

 tages to be gained by using floating nature lures 

 and the method employed in using them, and 

 then consider how needful are the radical changes 

 suggested. 

 There are thousands of machine-made rubber 

 frights now sold, mostly to those new to the craft, 

 to children, and to anglers who will take any- 

 thing offered without thinking. Reference is made 

 more especially to those lures stitched on a card 



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