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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



tip that has given very satisfac- 

 tory service. 



I happened to have an old-style 

 telephone receiver which was fit- 

 ted with a detachable cord. The 

 ends of this cord were tipped with 



small brass pins and the joint be- 

 tween the cord and the brass tip 

 was protected by a ferrule which 

 slipped down over the tip. I re- 

 moved the ferrule and dressed 

 down the tip so the ferrule would 

 fit tightly over the end and ce- 

 mented it on. I drilled a small 

 hole in the end of the rod, 

 screwed in a small nickeled 

 screw-eye, leaving about one- 

 eighth of an inch of the shank 

 projecting from the hole. I then 

 bent the eye quite sharply upward 

 and soldered the eye so that it was 

 closed all the way around and 

 smoothed the joint with fine em- 

 ery paper. I also soldered around 

 the hole where the screw-eye en- 

 tered the ferrule, thus making the 

 tip water-tight. Do not bend the 

 screw-eye before screwing it into 

 the tip because if the twist of 

 screwing it in comes at an angle 

 from the side rather than straight, 

 the eye will likely break off at 

 the bend. I rewrapped and revar- 

 nished the rod, and while it is 

 now shorter by some eight inches, 



it is just the thing for the small, 

 brushy streams. 



A standard onion crate makes 

 as fine a live box for use in a 

 camp as anything I have ever 

 used. The slats are placed about 

 a half-inch apart and the crate is 

 large enough to hold fish up to 

 two feet in length. When not in 

 use the crate folds up and takes 

 up very little space in your equip- 

 ment. 



A SLIDE FLOAT ARRANGE- 

 MENT 



BY A. B. COTTER 

 Take a large cork float. With 

 a pair of pliers pull out the round 

 piece of wood that goes through 

 the float. Get a piece of cane 

 (bamboo), the same size of the 

 wood that was taken out of the 

 float. Push it through float, trim 

 the ends smooth and even with the 



top and bottom of the float. Care- 

 fully round out each end of the 

 stem so it will not cut line. Pass 

 line through cork. Fit sinker and 

 hook on line and use a small bot- 

 tle cork on line the depth wanted 

 to fish. 



Now, when you want to fish 



