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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



A BOBBER WOBBLER 



BY JOSEPH W. BOYLE 

 One rainy Sunday before the 

 season had opened I was prac- 

 ticing casting on the lawn. I 

 searched my tackle box for a 

 proper casting weight, but the best 

 thing I could find was a small egg- 

 shaped float or bobber. The wind 

 was pretty strong and the bobber 

 rather light to cast well. I was 

 just figuring on adding a weight 

 to it when an idea struck me. 

 Why not make a real wobbling 

 bait out of this bobber? You see, 

 I had been reading in the cata- 

 ogs about the new wobblers and 



I wanted one to try out. So I re- 

 tired to shelter to do a bit of fig- 

 uring. In a few minutes my wob- 

 bler was competed. This is how 

 it was made: 



On either side of the bobber I 

 gouged out a fluting with my 

 jack-knife, about an inch long, a 

 quarter of an inch wide and deep 

 in the middle and growing shal- 

 lower at each end. Then I cut a 

 narrow groove down the back and 

 fastened a long-shanked Sneck 

 hook in it. A bit of copper wire 

 at the end held the hook firmly 

 in its groove. On the under side 

 of the bait I sunk a ringed sinker 

 for a balancing weight. A screw 

 eye at the forward end, located a 

 bit above the center, completed the 

 job. Total cost a few cents only. 



This bobber had a red head, a 

 yellow middle stripe and a green 

 after part, making it a brilliant 

 bit of color. It dived and wob- 

 bled very nicely and the hook be- 

 ing set with the point up, made it 

 practically weedless. 



A WATERPROOF MATCH 

 SAFE 



BY CHARLES BARTON, JR. 

 I suppose all the readers of the 

 OUTER'S BOOK have seen and 

 heard of several dozens of water- 

 proof match-boxes, but for an in- 

 expensive home-made article mine 

 should take the cake. The neces- 

 sary apparatus consists of one 

 empty brass shotgun shell, the 

 smaller the gauge the better, and 

 one ordinary cork stopper to fit 

 the same. Take a handful of 

 matches, place in the box and 

 close with stopper, thus making 

 a waterproof match-box. To prove 

 this I filled the case with matches 

 and left it in water for three and 

 one-half hours, and at the end of 

 this time the matches were per- 

 fectly dry. 



A BAIT IMPROVEMENT 



BY FRED J. SCHILDHAUER 

 While out fishing on one of the 

 lakes near my home, I got one of 

 those "dandy" strikes. But the 

 fish was a better warrior than I 

 and carried off the tail gang of 

 my artificial minnow as a trophy. 

 I did not have an extra gang 

 along and was wondering what 

 to do when my eye fell on a 

 feathered fly attached to a spoon 



