KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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hook in my outfit. It was short 

 work to put this in place of the 

 missing gang and I was soon 

 plugging away again. At the 

 close of the day I found that I 

 had been the lucky one out of the 

 entire bunch that were fishing. 

 Apparently the fish had favored 

 my patched up bait above all other 

 offerings. Try this out yourself 

 and you will find it a real im- 

 provement. 



A LEFT-HANDED CASTING 

 REEL 



BY W. J. BALDWIN 

 The average left-handed man 

 using any regular casting reel 

 places it on the rod in a reverse 

 position from that used by right- 

 handed anglers. In this position, 

 using the left hand for casting, 

 the hand often gets too close to 

 the reel so that in making the cast 



the balanced handle of the reel 

 tears a bunch of skin from the 

 knuckle of the finger. 



Having had the skin torn from 

 my knuckles on several occasions, 

 I made my casting reel over so 



that now I can cast without fear 

 of torn knuckles. 



The enclosed sketch explains 

 how I did this. 



Figure 1 shows reel as it orig- 

 inally was. Figure 2 as it now is. 



4 5 



To make change, remove handle, 

 side plate, gears and inside plate. 

 Turn reel clock^wise until rod 

 screw hole No. 5, Fig. 1, is in the 

 position of No. 5, Fig. 2. It 

 will then only be necessary to 

 drill three small holes in each side 

 plate to correspond with rod holes 

 A, B and C, Fig. 2. Then replace 

 all screws in cross rods, gears, 

 outer plate and handle and the 

 reel will then hare the handle in 

 position shown in Fig. 2, in which 

 position the handle cannot possi- 

 bly hit the knuckles. 



THE EMERGENCY MATCH 

 SUPPLY 



BY 'Tuc" MOEN 



While on a canoe trip down the 

 Wisconsin River from State Line, 

 Mich., to Stevens Point, Wis., I 

 came upon a hunting camp near a 



