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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



and losing strike after strike. 

 After having lost about a dozen 

 fish in this manner on each of two 

 consecutive afternoons' fishing, 

 and not being able to connect in 

 any manner that I tried, I started 

 to study the situation with the idea 

 of putting one over on Mr. Small 

 Mouth. 



After considering and rejecting 

 several plans I finally evolved this 

 idea. Being a bait caster as well 

 as live bait fisherman, I had in 

 my tackle box a small spoon with 

 one treble hook. On my next try 

 for bass in the long hole I took 

 this treble hook and a spool of 

 silk thread with me. Procuring 

 a nice bucket of craws I com- 

 menced operations by impaling the 

 craw close to the body with one 

 hook of the treble, binding the 

 tail to the shank with a few turns 

 of silk thread. The first cast was 

 productive of a strike. Keeping 

 my thumb on the reel I waited 

 until the tip of the rod started to 

 bend then struck with the result 

 Mr. Bass was hooked fair in the 

 mouth and after a nice fight 

 creeled. Eleven more followed 

 suit. This little kink netted me 

 twelve out of thirteen strikes. 

 The thirteenth bass was such a 

 good one that he carried the 

 hooks off with him. 



While it is customary to use one 

 hook in bait fishing, I do not be- 

 lieve that this can be considered 

 unsportsmanlike. I do not think 

 that it was so much the three- 

 hook feature that netted good re- 

 sults as the manner of presenta- 



tion of the bait. While I do not 

 employ this kind of means or- 

 dinarily it did the trick when all 

 other methods failed in a peculiar 

 circumstance. 



MY HOME-MADE TACKLE 

 BOX 



BY A. A. HODGES 



How many times has the ques- 

 tion been asked in this maga- 

 zine, "What is the best way to 

 carry bass plugs?" There is al- 

 ways something new to be tried 

 out, or your friend tells you of 

 a bait which was the only thing 

 "they" would look at on a certain 

 lake. Of course, you buy one to 

 add to the collection and then 

 wonder where you are going to 

 put it. I used to carry mine 

 around packed in their original 

 boxes in a small leather grip. 

 Usually the bait I wanted was at 

 the very bottom, and more than 

 once I would find that it had come 

 out of the box and mingled lov- 

 ingly with several others th^t 

 were rattling around loose. So I 

 decided that it was about time 

 to figure out some better method. 



I picked up a small leather case 

 which had been discarded by a 

 traveling salesman and started 

 with that as my base. The out- 

 side dimensions were 12^x9x3 

 inches. From a tin shop T 

 bought some sheet zinc, the cost, 

 by the way, being thirty cents. 

 A wood block or form was made 

 to fit the case arid the zinc shaped 

 over it to make the lining. The 

 corners were soldered and the 



