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shoulder strap is tacked onto the 

 back and the job is completed. 



This type of box keeps the fish 

 nice and hard, particularly if you 

 lay a handful of green clover or 

 leaves between them. The box can 

 be made any size to suit your own 

 ideas. I have made many of them 

 and sold them, too. 



CORN FOR 43ARP 



BY H. F. HOLLMANN, JR. 

 In several issues of OUTER'S I 

 have noticed bait mentioned for 

 catching carp, but do not recall 

 seeing the following recipe : When 

 other bait is scarce, a can of 

 sugar corn can always be relied 

 upon to do the trick. Or while 

 the field corn is still in the milky 

 white stage, or just turning, it 

 can be used just as successfully. 

 It surely is an isolated fishing 

 hole where one will not have to 

 pass a cornfield somewhere on the 

 ft way. A few 



V rows cut off with 



a knife will be 

 III-., suffic i e n t for 



UsCft several hours' 

 fishing, if they 

 don't bite too 



As for baiting 

 the hook, have 

 not as yet found 

 the one and only 

 way. My per- 

 sonal preference 

 is a small hook 

 with a rather 

 long shank and 

 the corn placed 



Use a 



long 



hook of 



smcxll 



sUe 



on the point and just around the 

 turn. This, for the reason that Mr. 

 Carp belongs to the "sucker" 

 family, and with a small hook 

 can get hook and all without 

 much trouble. If the corn is 

 strung all the way up the shank 

 he is liable to have a meal before 

 he gets to the business end of the 

 hook, not mentioning the excite- 

 ment caused to the one on the 

 bank, who is waiting for Mr. Carp 

 to get the hook. Now if you can 

 hook one weighing from five to 

 ten pounds with light tackle, you 

 are going to have some fun before 

 he comes in. 



STEEL RING GUIDES 



BY WM. GUNRICH 

 Some time ago I received as a 

 premium with my subscription to 

 OUTER'S BOOK a Heddon rod of 

 the kind that sells for a dollar and 

 a half. It has better action than 

 my five-and-a-half-fqot steel rod. 



However, when I looked at the 

 guides I saw that they were not 



just as I would like to have 

 them. They may have been as 

 good as any, but I had an idea 

 that they could be improved up- 

 on. As I happen to be so fortu- 

 nate as to have the use of a foot- 

 power lathe, I set to work to 

 make the improvement. 



First I got a piece of steel out 

 of which I cut the rings. These I 



