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ing, whether you are after these old roughnecks of 

 the weed beds or the gamer scrapper, the bass, you 

 can figure it both ways from the jack that the smaller 

 lure has it all over the larger one. 



And spoons, Old Man can you dope it out why 

 a gray-whiskered musky, victor of many a hard- 

 fought battle, with a mouth like a coal scuttle, will 

 delight in snapping his jaws over a little No. 3 sized 

 spoon hook? Records of the big fellows caught on 

 the spoon during the past season show that the 

 average sized spoon used was around a No. 7, while 

 the largest musky ever known to be caught with a 

 rod, line and reel answered to the flash of a No. 8 

 spoon. Of course, according to the size of a fish, a 

 fellow dopes out that he needs a big old spoon, 

 around a No. 12 or No. 14, and at that it looks 

 mighty small for the big ones, but the fact remains 

 that the big fellows really go crazy over the medium 

 sized spoons which, twirling around, flash an irre- 

 sistible invitation to the big fins to come and strike 

 one. 



