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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



dinary single bow knot. Bring 

 the end of the knot through the 

 loop and pull all down tight. To 

 untie, it will be found very easy 

 to withdraw the end from the 

 loop and then a single pull opens 

 everything up. 



KEEP YOUR HOPPER 

 ALIVE 



BY W. H. GREENE 

 Grasshoppers are frequently a 

 good bait and a live hopper is 

 better than a dead one. But if 

 you hook them in the thorax 

 they die almost immediately, and 

 hooked in the abdomen they come 

 off too easily. I find it pays to 



keep a spool of thread with me 

 and when the fish will rise to 

 nothing but hoppers I tie them on 

 the hook with this. Just put a 

 loop around the thorax, under 

 the wings and ahead of the hind- 

 legs. Run the hook through this 

 loop under the hopper's body. 

 Cast out and watch results as 

 Mister Hopper kicks his protest. 



AN EMERGENCY FOOT 



REST 



BY G. A. C. CLARKE 

 On a recent fishing trip I found 

 that my host's boat or punt had 

 no footboard to brace my feet 

 against while rowing, so I made 

 one by cutting three sticks and 



nailed them as shown in the dia- 

 gram. The ends A and B extend- 

 ed to the stern of the boat, rest- 

 ing on the floor; C is the brace 



A 



for the feet. A and B can, of 

 course, be cut any length to suit 

 the reach of the rower's legs. 

 This rigging is in no manner at- 

 tached to the boat, so may be 

 readily taken out in order to clean 

 out the latter. 



IMPROVING TUBE TIPS 



BY A. MANNING, JR. 

 With the tube style of tip guide 

 which is still found on. some cast- 

 ing rods, the line has a great 

 tendency to cling to the rod when 



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it gets wet, interfering consider- 

 ably with its free running qual- 

 ities. This can be easily remedied 

 with a small pair of pliers. Grasp 

 the guide with the pliers at the 



