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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



and straightens the line, he pulls 

 out the small prop. The rubber 

 band promptly jerks down the 

 reel handle, causing the spool to 

 wind in a few inches of line, just 

 enough to set the hook. If the 

 angler desires the fish to run with 

 the bait for some distance before 

 being snubbed (as when fishing 

 with minnows, etc.), strip out the 

 extra line in advance and let it 

 lie in loose coils just back of the 

 first guide. 



AN IMPROVISED TANDEM 



BY JOHN PHILLIPS 

 Sometimes the bass insist on 

 biting short on your minnow when 

 you do not happen to have a reg- 

 ular tandem hook handy. You 



Fig I 



can't blame the fish for not want- 

 ing to get their faces full of 

 hooks, but here's a way to fool 

 them just the same: 



Tie a 3.0 Aberdeen snelled hook 

 on the end of your line and let 



this run back through the gills of 

 the minnow. Then loop another 

 of the same hooks onto the line a 

 little farther up, looping on with 



the simple hitch shown in Fig. 2. 

 This hook goes through the lips 

 of the bait and your tandem is 

 complete. Better than a regular 

 tandem in some respects because 

 it is so easily adjusted to the 

 length of the minnow. 



GANGS CAN'T TWIST OUT 



BY GEORGE A. WIGGAN 

 Last summer, after having lost 

 several large pike and muskies, 

 due to the tail hooks coming out, 

 I inquired the cause from an old- 

 timer. He told me that the mus- 

 kies and likely pike as well, have 

 a habit of rolling over during their 

 struggles and in this way twist off 

 the hook. He showed me a bait 

 on which the tail gang had been 



twisted almost straight by a small 

 muskie. 



I use baits having a single tail 

 gang only. 



I took one of these and after 

 removing the hook from the tail, 

 put on a small swivel and then 

 put back the hook. I tried this 

 for several days and missed about 

 a dozen strikes. I then saw that 

 the swivel put the hook too far 

 back to hook any but those that 

 came from the rear. 



I cut the ring off one end of 

 the swivel and also cut the eye off 

 the screw eye that held the hook. 

 The hole in the bottom of the 



