KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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made up several of these home- 

 made affairs and have landed 

 many a bronze back, as well as 

 numerous pickerel on them. 



THE WORM WEED GUARD 



BY CLARK H. GALLUP 

 Trout fishing being next on the 

 program, I am going to tell you 

 about a hook kink that has served 

 me well in my search for the 

 speckled beauties. I have tried it 

 out in the waters of Montana, 



brush and among the logs and 

 snags. You can bet it gets right 

 in where the trout live. 



If I do not get a bite I do not 

 pull my hook back too rapidly 

 when I retrieve, but pull it out 

 gently and seldom get snagged. 



When using large worms one is 

 enough on a hook. Start the hook 

 about one and one-half inches 

 back from the head of the worm 

 and run it toward the tail, as 

 shown in (Fig. 1. Then run the 

 point of the hook right into the 



Wyoming, Colorado and Wiscon- 

 sin, and it has always done ex- 

 cellent work. 



The stunt is nothing more nor 

 less than placing an ordinary an- 

 gle worm on the hook, so as to 

 make the hook practically weed- 

 less. It works so well that in 

 small brush streams where the 

 current is not too swift I do not 

 use a sinker at all, but just let 

 my "patent" worm guard hook 

 float with the current right into 

 the holes under the bank, in the 



center of the head, well past the 

 barb, as shown in Fig. 2, and you 

 have a weed guard that will work 

 in the tightest place, if you do not 

 jerk too hard. Fig. 3 shows how 

 the same trick may be worked 

 with two smaller worms. 



A BROKEN RING GUIDE 



BY DAVID STEWART 



It is the sad realization of many 

 sportsmen that they cannot be 

 sportsmen all of the time; lhat is 



