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minnow or frog. To make the latter bait, it is only 

 necessary to cut a wider piece of pork and split the 

 tail into two legs. The fact that the pork is fresh 

 and limber makes it take a very lifelike motion 

 through the water, and at the same time when a fish 

 strikes a pork rind bait it does not immediately 

 throw it out of its mouth, as is the case with wooden 

 baits. The pork has more of the soft feel of the 

 live bait to the fish, and it's a twenty-to-one shot that 

 he'll try to swallow it. 



PORK CHUNK GOOD BAIT 



Chunks of pork cut wedge shape are very success- 

 ful bait, especially for casting. Take a piece about 

 one and a half inches across the top, two inches long 

 and one inch thick. Taper this down to half an inch 

 at the end and cut off the rind except at the thickest 

 end. Decorate this chunk with red yarn around the 

 head and you have an A-i casting bait. 



If you don't want to bother with making your own 

 pork rind baits, you can get the strips in bottles or 

 the chunks in boxes at your tackle store, but a lot 

 of the fun of fishing comes from doping up for your- 

 self the bait that later lands the big ones. 



In hooking the pork rind, hook it close up to the 

 end so that the balance of the bait is loose and free 

 to move with the water as it is reeled in. Hook it 

 through the pork with the rind on top, so that the 

 bait stands up in the water. 



