KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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I painted this a pure white and 

 then splashed it with irregular 

 markings of red and green. I 

 have had fair success with this 



bait for small-mouth, and have 

 had more strikes on it than on 

 some of the costly plugs. This 

 bait has the added advantage of 

 being nearly weedless. 



THE FINGER RING 

 SPOOLER 



BY JAS. W. BIRTHONG 



Here is a simple Kink that will 

 enable you to spool the line on a 

 plain reel as well as any mechan- 

 ical level- winder can do the job 

 and with no complicated machin- 

 ery to obstruct the cast. Get a 

 ring that will fit the first joint 

 on the index finger of your left 



hand. You can have one made 

 at the jewelry store out of silver 

 or nickel if necessary. On the 

 top of this ring is to be set a small 

 yoke or crotch to guide the line 

 with. The diagram should make 



the manner of using this device 

 quite clear. When reeling in just 

 palm your reel in the ordinary 

 manner. Catch the line in the 

 yoke guide it back and forth with 

 the finger. It is positive in its 

 work and handles as slick as any- 

 thing you ever tried. Nothing 

 simpler. 



IMPROVED OAR LOCK 

 FASTENING 



BY HARRY F. RIES 



The enclosed sketch shows an 



arrangement for the oar locks on 



small boats. The oar lock itself is 



screwed on to a wedge-shaped 



piece of oak cut with a shoulder 

 to rest on the boat's side, and 

 fastened by running wire nail 

 through hole near top and twist- 

 ing oar lock until nail is bent in 

 shape to hold. Wooden strips are 

 placed inside of boat and the cross 

 pieces made of hoop iron. 



You can readily see that this ar- 

 rangement takes a good deal of 

 strain off sides of boat. The 

 screws will not readily pull out 

 of oak as when placed in soft 

 material from which boats are 

 usually built. The locks are per- 

 manently fast, yet can be taken 

 out when boat is not in use. The 



