SPOONS AND SPINNERS 



You wonder where the spoon gets its big drag 

 with the fishermen; well, Old Top, for trolling and 

 casting, the old reliable spoon probably is more gen- 

 erally used than any other kind of lure and you can 

 check it up in your memory book that it often gets 

 the fish when other lures fail to coax the big fins out 

 of the wet. 



Of course the spoon doesn't look like any natural 

 bait, nor does it appear to the beginner as a par- 

 ticularly attractive feed for a hungry fish, but it does 

 the one thing necessary in the fishing game, and that 

 is, it attracts the fish. After you have had a spoon 

 bent double by an over-zealous fish trying to inhale 

 it, you will realize that it is sure some attracter. 



ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY OF SPOON 



Way back in your A, B, C days, so piscatorial 

 historians claim, an old sour-dough was washing his 

 one spoon and plate after a repast of johnny-cake 

 and bacon, when by accident the spoon flopped into 

 the water and did a salome down to the bottom. As 

 the spoon zig-zagged down through the water he 

 noticed the quick, sharp flashes of light reflected 

 from the bowl of the spoon, and at the same time a 



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