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when he comes from the frying 

 pan. Roaches are also good bait 

 for croppie, goggle eye perch and 

 catfish. 



I have known roaches to sell 

 for 25 cents a dozen. I recently 

 caught 46 bream which weighed 

 16 Ibs. in one hour and a half. 

 Another fisherman using red 

 worms could not even get a bite, 

 though his boat was almost touch- 

 ing mine. 



The roaches are caught in gro- 

 cery stores, butcher shops, restau- 

 rants, etc. Most anglers use reg- 

 ular screen wire roach traps, 

 which can be bought at any hard- 

 ware store, at 25 cents each. Bait 

 them with raw potato and set 

 where the roaches pass along the 

 walls. They may also be caught 

 in a slick new tin pan. Put raw 

 potato in the pan and place a piece 

 of cardboard for them to walk 

 up on. They drop off into the 

 basin and can't crawl out, and if 

 they are thick you will have a 

 hundred each morning. 



They can be kept for days and 

 weeks if fed liberally on raw po- 

 tato. A damp cloth should be 

 used to supply moisture. All va- 

 rieties of perch will bite them 

 more liberally than any bait I 

 have ever used and you very sel- 

 dom miss your fish. 



AN EMERGENCY LEADER " 



BY M. A. GURNEY 



By tying an ordinary single 

 knot, as per diagram ; then 

 spreading points b and c and pass-| 



ing loop D between them at point 

 shown by arrow and drawing 

 tight ends A and B, you will have 

 duplicate of the editor's "Middle 

 Branch" knot. We used to call 

 this a half hitch jam knot, though 

 I was mighty glad to see it again, 

 for it never occurred to me as 

 just the thing for a dropper loop. 

 And even though others may 



know the knot (though not your 

 own way of tying it), I am sure 

 bringing this new use for it to 

 their attention will be appre- 

 ciated. 



Here's a new wrinkle or may- 

 hap an old one; but I dare say it 

 is young, if not new, because the 

 material has been on the market 

 but a few years. 



About three years ago I was 

 fishing near a town about the size 

 of a postofiice, general store and 

 (of course) a saloon. During the 

 day, through a mishap I lost every 

 leader I had, even to the one I 

 was using. I was surely up 

 against it. Finally I mooched 

 over to the general store, but just 

 because I wanted a leader they 

 didn't carry them. 



That evening I was telling my 

 jtroubles to a fellow trout fan, 

 when he laughed and told me he 



