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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



the net. These may be sprung 

 together and slipped into the loops 

 and the net is ready for business, 

 as shown in Fig. 3. 



It can be carried almost as 

 easily as a pocket handkerchief 

 and may help us to a basket of 

 trout when their appetites call for 

 minnows. ^_______ 



A GOOD SINKER FOR 

 TROUT FISHING 



BY FRANK E. WILDER 



I have used a Kink which 

 works very well in any stream 

 when fishing with worms. This 

 is especially effective in streams 

 which are frequently fished and 

 where the trout are wise. 



Most everyone knows that to 

 make the bait look like worms 

 which have naturally fallen into 

 the stream, you let your hook, 

 which is well baited with worms, 

 drift down the stream before you 

 and you don't use a sinker. There 

 is one objection to this mode of 

 fishing, which is, that you can't 

 get to fish the deep holes where 

 there is a current, and that is the 

 very place where the big ones lie. 



To get down in these holes and 

 still have your bait look lifelike, 

 tightly roll a piece of tinfoil, 

 which is about three-quarters of 

 an inch square, around your line 

 just above your leader or about 

 six or eight inches from your 

 hook. 



If no tinfoil -can be found, 

 melt a little lead and pour it on 

 some smooth surface from a 

 height of five feet. While pour- 



ing, keep the dish in motion so 

 that the lead will not fall in the 

 same spot, and the lead will flat- 

 ten out in little pieces about as 

 large as a penny. 



When using one of these sink- 

 ers and you get your hook 

 snagged on a log you can pull the 

 sinker right through the end eye 

 and work your hook loose with 

 the tip of your pole without dis- 

 turbing the hole. 



As an example, to show how 

 effective this sinker is in trout 

 fishing, I will tell you about my 

 last fishing trip. Three of us, two 

 friends and I, went fishing. One 

 of my friends used split buck- 

 shot, and the other fellow used 

 no sinker at all. As usual, I 

 used a piece of tinfoil. As a re- 

 sult, the total catch of my friends 

 was three trout, while I caught 

 twelve beauties. 



WAXING SILK THREADS 

 FOR ROD WINDING 



BY JULIUS FRANK 

 For you who rewind and you 

 who make your own rods com- 

 plete, give heed to an easy and 

 effective manner of waxing your 

 threads. 



Having almost completed a 5- 

 foot casting rod of bethabara, I 

 suddenly remembered that the 

 light, gaudy colored threads on a 

 split bamboo rod which I re- 

 wound last winter were now dark 

 and dull. I began formulating a 

 plan to overcome this deteriora- 

 tion in the threads. I knew of the 

 time-worn method of drawing the 



