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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



When you are whiling away 

 the time with blue-gills, waiting 

 for it to get later in the after- 

 noon, you will sometimes wish 

 they would bite a little oftener. 

 Just take that heavy underwater 

 plug and cast out about thirty 

 feet. Reel it in very slowly, so 

 ^hat it will go deep. Do this on 

 all sides of the boat. When the 

 blue-gills see the minnow they 

 just follow right along to see the 

 excitement. They notice a fat, 

 juicy worm and think they have 

 gone far enough. If you are the 

 owner of the worm you will have 

 fish for supper. 



A HELGRAMITE HARNESS 

 DE LUXE 



BY E. H. COULTAS 

 Nimrod, can you hook a big 

 husky Helgramite, cast him to all 

 points of the compass endeavor- 

 ing to secure a strike, and at last 

 take him off your hook, and still 

 have the consolation of finding 

 him as mean and devlish, as anx- 

 ious to nip your fingers as when 

 two hours before you jammed 

 your hook under his shell-like 

 collar? I doubt it very much, be- 

 cause this particular Helgramite 

 will be as dead as a doornail and 

 will have no more crawl in him 

 than an Egyptian mummy. 



You simply cannot appreciate 

 the good qualities of this brute as 

 one of the very best live bass 

 baits until you have given him a 

 real chance to twist, squirm, 

 crawl and bite when affixed to 



your hook. Why, Fisherman, he 

 has the vitality of a marathon 

 runner if you simply eliminate 

 that "solar plexus" you hand him 

 with your hook. Think of it, a 

 natural live bass bait, as easily 

 used in shallow as deep water ! 

 A live bait equipped with a tre- 

 mendous amount of kick and 

 fight, that will actually goad a 

 bass on to strike when his acro- 

 batic stunts under water have 

 failed to tempt the wary fish. 



On that very next "whirl" you 

 take at the mighty bass, how 

 would you like to have your live 

 Helgramite so attached to your 

 hook so that he 



1st Will be as active as if in 

 his native element. 



2nd Will live for hours with- 

 out torture, unless you get a 

 strike, and finish as strong phys- 

 ically as when you made your 

 very first cast. 



3rd Will present the hook in 

 the most effective position for the 

 strike that is known. 



4th Will never tear hook loose 

 from collar in casting, losing and 

 killing bait, perhaps at the worst 

 possible moment. 



Listen, give a moment to the 

 following simple directions and I 

 guarantee that you will cast the 

 liveliest live Helgramite (and one 

 that will stay alive) that was ever 

 on your particular hook. It is 

 the strong, vigorous, active live 

 bait that does not sap away its 

 life while suspended upon your 

 hook, that "turns the trick" after 

 all. This is the cry of the live 



