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think up a new scheme of my 

 own. 



Early one morning I decided to 

 try my new scheme out. I went 

 down to the grocery and bought 

 five cents' worth of this old-style 

 stick peppermint candy. I tied 

 the candy on the string and sent 

 it to the bottom. When I raised 

 it up out of the water there were 

 about ten crawfish hanging on, 

 and before sundown I had about 

 300 of those devils. 



Crawfish certainly love candy. 

 Try it! 



A BAIT BELT 



BY F. J. MINCK 



The question of carrying my 

 artificial lures for bass fis'hing has 

 always been a problem until I hit 

 upon the idea of carrying them 

 in the tin boxes that Prince Al- 

 bert and Velvet tobacco came in. 

 These boxes are fine, as the lid is 

 hinged on and the lures fit just 

 snug enough so that they do not 

 rattle, which also saves the enamel 

 on them. By pressing the ends 

 of these tins the middle will 

 bulge a little and you can easily 

 slip in the lure, even if it's a 

 little snug. The Prince Albert tin 

 will hold almost any of the under- 

 water lures for bass, also some 

 of the surface lures. The Velvet 

 tin is a little bigger, but not quite 

 so deep, and will easily hold such 

 lures as the Decker surface. 



I have six of these tins fastened 

 on a leather belt which I wear 

 around my waist when fishing 

 (Fig. A). I wear a thirty-four 



belt, so of course a man that 

 wears a forty-four might be able 

 to fasten on another half dozen. 

 It is very simple to make, and 

 costs but little. Get a fifty-cent 

 belt and two copper rivets with 

 washers for each tin. The tins 

 won't cost you anything, as you 

 can get them from friends if you 

 don't smoke. I think my belt cost 

 me about seventy-five cents, all 

 told. 



Now, punch a 'hole near both 

 sides of each tin on the back by 

 first putting a piece of board that 

 fits the box snug and hammering 

 a nail of the right size thru. Then 

 cut holes in your belt to corre- 

 spond with holes in the tin. Take 



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your rivet (these should have a 

 flat head), and insert them thru 

 the tin first; then thru the belt. 

 Slip washer over end of rivet and 

 hammer head on rivet by using 

 a piece of iron inside of tin so 

 that you won't bend tin while 

 hammering head on rivet Or you 

 can use very small bolts which 

 have a thread the whole length, 

 and screw on the nut. You can 

 buy these at any hardware store. 

 Fasten the tins about two inches 

 apart on the belt, which allows 

 you space to fold it up and also 

 lets it fit better around the waist. 

 For my larger lures such as wob- 



