WOBBLERS, WIGGLERS AND PLUGS 



They are with us by the hundreds and even thou- 

 sands, the various-shaped wooden plugs, painted in 

 every color in the deck and then a few extra cubist 

 daubs thrown in for luck. And here's the funny 

 part, old chap : they all seem to get the fish, more 

 or less, according to the expertness of the manipu- 

 lator of the rod. 



Although the majority of the artificial baits do not 

 resemble any natural bait that is, not so you 

 would notice it without first having read their pedi- 

 grees yet for some inexplicable reason the fish 

 strike them, and as they generally have hooks galore, 

 even the beginner has no trouble in hooking his fish; 

 in fact, many times the fish hooks himself. Of 

 course you'll have to jot this down in your dream- 

 book: " Hookin' 'em doesn't always mean landin' 



'em." 



WHAT MAKES ; EM DO IT? 



Probably when a highly cultured bass sees one of 

 these gloriously decorated affairs splash in his home 

 grounds he up and makes a dash at it in anger at 

 the rough-neck intrusion of the queer-looking object, 

 or perhaps strikes it in pure cussedness, egged on 



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