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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



may be easily fitted to the butt of 

 the rod. It will act as a buffer or 

 pad while reeling in the bait with 

 the butt against the body, and will 

 also protect the rod to an extent. 

 The angler who rewinds and 

 varnishes his rods during the 

 closed season, might try this kink. 



in the Blue Ridge Mountains this 

 summer. It was late summer 

 when all the minnow branches 

 were low and the water clear, a 

 condition that required one to be 

 an expert with the dip net or 

 seine if any minnows were to be 

 landed, while we could always se- 



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After the old varnish has been 

 scraped from the rod, put on the 

 windings, space them an inch 

 apart for a foot or so above the 

 reel seat. Now number them 1, 

 2, 3, etc., with India ink, and 

 varnish. 



You now have a convenient 

 place to measure your catch. 



A MINNOW TRAP 



BY RICHARD K. WOOD 

 Did you ever have a fishing 

 trip result in a failure because 

 you could not get minnows? No 

 doubt many bait fishermen could 

 answer this question in the affirm- 

 ative. 



The methods most often em- 

 ployed in catching minnows are 

 seining, trapping, and fishing from 

 the bank with a light pole, thread 

 and minnow hook. Sometimes for 

 one reason or another all three 

 of these methods may fail. For 

 instance, the water may be so 

 clear that the minnows will es- 

 cape under rocks before the seine 

 reaches them, or chubs may not 

 be biting This luck happened to 

 the writer on a fishing trip while 



cure some minnows, we could 

 never get a sufficient number to 

 fill our needs and here is where 

 my kink came in handy and it 

 may come in handy for you some 

 time, too. 



We had worn out and patched 

 up our seine until there was a 

 real cause for a "discovery." We 

 took an ordinary burlap sack with 

 a barrel hoop in the mouth and 

 placed it in the brook, obstruct- 

 ing the way on each side of it. 

 Then going up stream we would 

 drive the minnows down by wad- 

 ing and thrashing the water with 

 a brush. We found that one man 

 could get more minnows with the 

 sack than two could get with a 

 seine in the same length of time. 

 They would dart under and 

 around a seine but would enter 

 the sack trap readily. 



REMOVING A FERRULE 



BY E. H. PECKINPAUGH 

 Whenever I had occasion to re- 

 pair a rod, removing a ferrule 

 used to cause me lots of trouble. 

 One day several years ago I 

 broke the tip of my rod at the 



