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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



Corks may be split and shoved 

 over the spindle of the reel, but 

 require fitting and fussing with to 

 get a good neat job. I overcome 

 the difficulty by winding on the 

 good line and then filling the 

 reel with common cord or old 

 line. Then I unwind and wind 

 on the cord or old line smoothly 

 next to the spindle. Before this 

 I buy at the drug store some ^-in. 

 adhesive plaster and a small bot- 

 tle of alcohol shellac. From the 

 plaster I cut three strips long 

 enough to go around the core of 

 twine on the reel and lap ^ or 

 ^2 inch. I put one strip around 

 the core at each side of the reel 

 and let it lap up about 1/64 of an 

 inch on the sides. The other strip 

 I put right in the center of the 

 spool and it overlaps the two 

 side ones. Then I coat this care- 

 fully with the shellac and after 

 an hour or so give it another 

 coat. That makes a good solid 

 waterproof core, but it can be re- 

 moved or changed with little or 

 no trouble. A coat of shellac 

 can be applied at any time and 

 makes it good as new. This can 

 be done just as easily on a solid 

 reel as on a take down model 

 without taking anything apart for 

 fitting. 



Now just a word on saving a 

 little work when drying lines. 

 Any hardware store will sell you 

 enough brass screw hooks for 5c 

 to rig up a good outfit. Select 

 hooks without sharp points. Find 

 in your home a space between two 

 doors or windows on the same 



wall and screw in a hook on the 

 casing of each. If you are using 

 more than one line, set a pair of 

 hooks for each one. My win- 

 dows are in a hallway eighteen 

 feet apart and it takes only a few 

 turns t>ack and forth to wind a 

 line on or off the reel. The hooks 

 are not unsightly and if made of 

 small stock will hardly show a 

 mar on the wood when necessary 

 to take them out. I generally 

 use a light and a heavy rod and 

 my wife usually fishes with me, so 

 I have three sets of drying hooks, 

 and every time I use them I smile 

 to think of the miles I used to 

 walk around chairs and other fool 

 things drying lines. 



TROLLING FOR CALICOES 



BY IRA DINTAMAN 

 Here is a kink that the brothers 

 will find handy when trolling for 

 the Calico, Strawberry or White 

 Bass. Take any kind of a rod up- 

 wards of nine feet long (the 

 longer the better), and swing out 

 your line a foot or eighteen inches 

 longer than the rod. Attach your 

 sinker about four feet from the 

 end of the rod. Use a No. 20 

 Cincinnati bass hook. For bait 

 cut about an inch and a half from 

 the tail end of a small perch or 

 blue gill. Split this lengthwise 

 so as to leave one-half of the tail 

 fin on each piece. Run the hook 

 through the larger end of the 

 piece. Now you are ready to 

 troll. 



Set your rod across your knees 

 so that it reaches up and back at 



