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with a piece of sewing thread I 

 tied a band around his body that 

 would not interfere with his 

 wings or legs and ran the hook 

 under the thread so that it did 

 not hurt the hopper at all. With 

 this equipment I slipped carefully 

 to one of the deep pools and 

 tossed Mr. Grasshopper out over 

 the pool. He tried to fly and did 

 a little. But the hook weighed 

 him down and in he went and 

 up came one of the big Rainbows 

 I was after, and the fight was on. 

 I got this one O. K., but I struck 

 the next too soon and lost him. 

 But the trick worked, and that is 

 what I wanted. 



THREE PRACTICAL SUG- 

 GESTIONS 



BY GEORGE A. WIGGAN 

 Anglers who use eyed flies and 

 do not like to pay the high prices 

 frequently asked for clip boxes, 

 should try the following: 



Get a flat tin tobacco box (not 

 too deep) of the side-opening 

 type. Scrape the paint off of this 

 and give it a coat of tinner's varn- 

 ish. Take some sheet cork about 

 a quarter of an inch thick and 

 cut it into strips as long as the 

 box is wide and about a quarter 

 of an inch broad. If sheet cork 

 is not available, the strips may be 

 cut out from long bottle corks. 

 Use the smallest size brads to 

 fasten the strips in place with. 

 Drive the brads into the box 

 from the outside. Then press a 

 strip of cork over the points and 

 clinch the ends of the brads with 



a tap of the hammer. Several 

 dozen eyed flies can be carried in 

 a box of this kind. A good idea 

 is to solder a ring to one corner 

 of the box and run a lanyard thru 



it. Hang this around your neck 

 and you will never lose the box 

 by having it fall out of your 

 pocket. 



Another good hunch for eyed-fly 

 users, which I believe was men- 

 tioned rvome years ago in this 

 magazine, is to fasten one of these 

 patent finger-nail clippers to a 

 cheap spring eyeglass holder. 

 Stick this on your lapel and you 

 will find it most handy for snip- 

 ping off the ends of gut after 

 fastening the flies to the leader. 



Those who use minnows may 

 welcome the following suggestion: 

 For several years we had great 

 difficulty in keeping "minnies" 

 alive. At first we used a plain 

 box with holes in it to allow the 

 water to circulate. This would 

 work only in deep water, because 

 when placed in the shallows the 

 wash soon killed the minnows. 

 And because these little fish are 

 essentially a shoal water species, 

 the pressure of the deep water 

 likewise affected them unfavor- 



