KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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short rod for still fishing. Plenty 

 of froggies on the bank and a 

 float in the tackle box. But I 

 want to fish deep, perhaps, and 

 just imagine making a cast with 

 fifteen or twenty feet of line out 



between the bait and the rod be- 

 fore you start out. Pretty awk- 

 ward. And then, even if you are 

 successful in getting the line well 

 away from the boat, imagine what 

 it will be when you get a fish on 

 and can't reel in any farther than 

 the float. Here's a way out of the 

 difficulty : 



Remove the stick which runs 

 through an ordinary float and sub- 

 stitute therefor a reed pipestem. 

 The smoke conveyor from a cob 

 Willie will about do the trick. 

 String the line through this and 

 tie a small bowknot in it above 

 the float at the place where you 

 want the float to stay. Reel this 

 bowknot right in and the float will 

 slip down to the hook. Make your 

 cast and the weight, of the bait 



will pull the line back through the 

 float to the desired depth. 



In playing the fish, if you should 

 be so fortunate as to get one on, 

 the bowknot usually comes untied. 

 If not, it still reels easily through 

 the guides. 



RAPID FlkE FISH CLEAN- 

 ING 



BY G. H. STROHM 

 Don't scale your bass or clean 

 him. Just lay him flat on his side 

 and make a clean cut through the 

 skin from head to tail over the 

 backbone. Do the same thing on 

 the under side, but slightly, just 

 breaking the skin. Cut the skin 

 also around the head and tail as 

 indicated by the dotted lines in the 

 diagram. 



Grasp the point of the skin at 

 the top of the head between knife 





blade and thumb. One good pull 

 and that side is skinned. Do the 

 same with the other side. Then 

 slice off a nice strip of boneless 

 flesh on each side and throw the 

 rest to the birds. You can do this 



