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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



size of the eyelet and put in the 

 eyelet until the ridge came down to 

 the bait and drove it flush with a 

 hammer (Fig. 1). I took a screw 

 eye and with a pair of pliers bent 

 the eye slightly on one side (Fig. 

 2). Then put on the treble hooks 

 and screwed them into the bait in 

 the usual fashion. 



I used one of these home-made 

 baits on my vacation trip and of 

 a total of twelve strikes did not 

 lose a fish due to the hooks pull- 

 ing out. 



KEEPING AGATE TIP 



FROM CHIPPING OR 



BREAKING 



BY C. L. CREUTZ 



During August, when on a fish- 

 ing trip in Wisconsin, I had the 

 misfortune of breaking the agate 

 tip on a Heddon casting rod. I 

 always use a wire leader in cast- 

 ing, as it is very much easier to 

 change "plugs" if the bass are not 

 "looking 'em over" as they should. 

 After a cast I retrieved the lure 

 too closely to the tip, causing it to 

 break the agate. Luckily, I had 



the thought struck me, "Why not 

 make a protector for the tip?" 

 No sooner said than done. Took 

 the eraser and with a knife cut it 

 into about six or seven "protect- 

 ors" looking something like Fig- 

 ure 1. Took a small nail and 

 poked a hole through from top to 

 bottom of "protector." Drew my 

 line through it and fastened line 

 to leader as in Fig. 2. Had no 

 more trouble and did not even 

 have to watch the leader when I 

 retrieved the lure, as the moment 

 the rubber protector struck the 

 tip I had to quit winding her up. 

 Intend to have a couple of erasers 

 in my tackle box for emergency 

 cases in the future. 



A HELGRAMITE CAN 



BY A. R. HARPER 



The best thing I have ever 

 found to carry helgramites in is 

 one of these perforated aluminum 

 cans which are designed to con- 

 vert the ordinary coffee pot into a 

 percolator. They can be procured 

 at any hardware store at from ten 

 to twenty cents according to size, 



F.g.2 



another tip with me and had an 

 inspiration to keep this one intact. 

 Found in my tackle box (for 

 some reason or other placed there 

 several years ago) an Eberhard 

 Faber rubber pencil eraser. Then 



quality and material and nerve of 

 the emporium you happen to visit. 

 I have seen these in ten cent 

 stores. 



Mine is about five inches high 

 and three inches in diameter. It 



