KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



117 



makes a fair grip. Pole only 

 costs $1.50 and will stand all kinds 

 of abuse. 



I use a Meisselbach "Tri-part" 

 reel, and want to say I find one 

 good point about it I never see 

 mentioned, and that is that there 



are no screws that can work 

 loose and let you cast a part of 

 your reel in the lake. This might 

 not happen with a higher-priced 

 reel, but I mean for a reel of its 

 price. The man that has a good 

 dog (mind I say good) won't 

 have much use for this kink un- 

 less he wants the. fun of it or to 

 save his dog some trips into the 

 cold water. If this kink finds a 

 place in your magazine to help 

 some other fellow that is in my 

 fix (hasn't a good dog) I will 

 feel amply repaid for writing it. 

 I have found many to whom it 

 was new and for some reason ye 

 duck hunter seems to be a bait- 

 caster as well. I am sure he will 

 get much sport out of combining 

 the two. 



NETTING AND STRING 



BY "KINKER" 



Brother angler, did you ever 

 take along on your fishing trip 



several yards of mosquito netting 

 and a ball of twine? And did 

 their usefulness ever appear to 

 you? 



Assuming you are off for sev- 

 eral days or a week-end, go to the 

 corner store and procure what- 

 ever amount of netting appeals 

 to you to get and a ball of twine. 



1st. Because when you get to 

 the fishing grounds the first thing 

 you need is bait, and in order to 

 catch bait you need a net. A 

 good serviceable light net for 

 catching minnows, crawfish, frogs, 

 grasshoppers or crickets can 

 quickly and easily be constructed. 

 Cut a slender sapling about 6 feet 

 long and bend the top into a good 

 sized loop. Cut a pie.ce of netting 

 of proper size so that the four 

 corners may be nicely folded 

 around loop, forming a net. 

 Fasten corners by running a string 

 spirally through netting and 

 around loop of bended sapling. 



2d. Having a net; you need a 

 minnow pail or cage, as the case 



may be. Take any pail, prefer- 

 ably as large as you have, and tie 

 a piece of netting over the top 

 after the manner that a farmer's 

 wife ties paper over the top of a 

 butter jar, viz., lay the netting 

 over the top and run a string 

 around the outside about 1 inch 

 from the brim. If it is desired 

 to use this for minnows, crawfish 



