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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



inches in this locality is a whale. 

 So now you know just why it was 

 that we didn't broil him right 

 away. You see we knew there 

 was sure to be a crowd at the 

 boat house about the time we 

 would get back. 



The little stick worked so well 

 on that occasion that I decided to 

 try it out again under different 

 conditions and in different waters. 

 I gave it that tryout in a pond 

 about five miles upstream. On 

 this occasion we took along all of 

 our gear so as not to get skunked, 

 but we didn't have to use any- 

 thing but the little alder stick and 

 I made a fairly good catch. Sev- 

 eral times now I have taken my 

 rod, reel and line, a swivel and 

 the double hook to some pond or 

 stream, cut an alder sprout for 

 the bait and had fairly good luck, 

 and didn't have to swear and 

 prick my fingers untangling a 

 snarl of plugs. 



No, I haven't given up plugs. I 

 use them all I can and keep get- 

 ting new ones. But now I know 

 that when it's "go light" I can 

 take along a spoon bait in my hat 

 band and a double hook to make 

 the alder bait and get fish with- 

 out making the air blue over 

 tangled baits. 



LIGHTING FIRE WITH 

 WATER 



BY WALTER RADEMAKER 

 One time when out in the 

 woods I found I had no matches. 

 Looking for my burning glass I 



found I had lost it. How was 

 I to start a fire? I took a leaf 

 from a tree, looped the stem as in 

 the illustration and dipped it in a 

 brook. The drop of water caught 



in the loop made a perfect minia- 

 ture lens. This I used as a burn- 

 ing glass. 



I first lit a cigarette with it 

 and used the cigarette to light my 

 fire. This may seem hard but 

 proves very simple. 



A blade of grass or a bit of 

 wire may be employed for the 

 same purpose. If wire is used, see 

 to it that all grease is wiped off 

 first, as the water will not stick 

 to form the necessary lens drop. 



A HOOK DISGORGER 



BY J. H. SEVERIN 

 Often while out fishing a per- 

 son will hook a fish deep and 

 generally he finds he has left his 



hook disgorger behind or lost it, 

 as I did several times. Now I 

 whittle out my own. Just take 

 a small branch of any tree and 

 cut to suitable length. Notch 



