KiNKS OF ALL KINDS 



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way you prjefer. Be sure that the 

 barb is pushed clear through the 

 paper. Then, on the stream, when 

 you want a fly, take out the sheet 

 containing that fly, and jerk out 

 the fly. Never mind if you tear 

 a big hole you can stick the fly 

 back in a little to one side. Prob- 

 ably, if you are like most anglers, 

 you will want to rearrange your 

 flies before each trip anyway. 

 This Kink takes little time at 

 home, when your time is not valu- 

 able, and saves precious minutes 

 on the stream. 



THE SELF-PULLED WIND- 

 ING KNOT 



BY CHARLES F. SPEORL 

 Here is a simple and effective 

 way of making the concealed fin- 

 ish on rod windings : 



Lay your winding silk along 

 the rod in a loop as shown in the 

 first diagram. Then go right on 



winding over this loop. When 

 the winding is as long as you want 

 it, break the silk, leaving an end a 

 couple of inches long. Bring this 

 end (B) through the loop. 



Still holding onto end B to 



keep the winding taut, pull stead- 

 ily on end A. This will pull the 

 loop back under the winding. 

 When the end of the loop has been 

 pulled about half way through, 

 cut both ends of the line that are 

 left projecting and your winding 

 is fastened both neatly and secure- 

 ly. Be careful not to pull the loop 

 too far through, as this would 

 leave the beginning of the wind- 

 ing insecurely fastened. 



HOME-MADE BAIT 

 SOCKET 



BY A. L. WEAVER, JR. 

 Being quite a novice at the fish- 

 ing game I like to have a number 

 of different kinds of bait, so I 



F/gl 



Fig. 2. 



make them during the winter 

 months. One of the propositions 

 I ran up against in making my 

 own baits was some method of 

 securely fastening the treble hooks 

 to the bait and after unsuccess- 

 fully trying to buy some screw 

 eyes such as are used on the "reg- 

 ular" baits, I finally hit on the 

 following scheme: 



I bought a box of No. 216^ 

 screw eyes and a box of station- 

 er's aluminum eyelets. Then beared 

 a hole in the minnow just the 



