KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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I sat down on the bank to con- 

 sider a bit. My partners returned 

 to camp and laughed with glee at 

 my homely makeshift. Cooney 

 offered to make every meal for a 

 week if I caught so much as one 



bass on it. The laugh was on 

 him, however, when we started 

 out fishing later that afternoon, 

 for we returned to camp with no 

 less than twenty nice bass. 



If you should look into my 

 tackle box to-day you see this 

 very bait with its original cover- 

 ing of birch bark as well as an- 

 other which I rigged up like it 

 later with a few improvements. 

 These baits have done business 

 for me on many different lakes. 

 The trick would work equally well 

 with a$iy other make of plain 

 floating bait. 



THE ALCOHOL BLOW 

 LAMP 



BY GEO. C. WHITNEY 

 About the handiest little kink 

 that I know of is this little alco- 

 hol blow lamp. It burns alcohol 

 and one filling lasts a long time, 

 as it has a cap which makes it 

 airtight when not in use. It fits 

 in the vest pocket or tackle box, 

 costs about a dollar and can be 

 made at home out of a piece of 

 brass tubing, a wick and a piece 

 of camera hose. 



It is operated by lighting, and 



then blowing the flame (which is 

 very hot and clean) on the article 

 to be repaired, at the same time 

 running soft solder or cement on 

 the work. 



It can be used to solder fish 

 hooks together in gangs or tan- 

 dem, temper points or weed 

 guards, opening eyes in hooks, 

 adding solder weights, soldering 

 tips on steel rods, guides, cement- 

 ing on agates, making small 

 molds, melting rosin or cement 

 onto flies, mending leaky minnow 

 buckets, tackle boxes and a hun- 

 dred other little jobs. And I 

 saved the day on my last trip by 

 repairing a puncture in the canoe 

 with it by running hot ceiling wax 

 in the hole over and under the 



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canvas. It is always in my tackle 

 box with a piece of soft solder, a 

 little soldering paste and a piece 

 of jeweler's cement. It is handier 

 than a soldering iron and makes a 

 much better job. 



