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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



times. When you attempt to reel 

 in you get tangled more and more 

 until you feel like throwing lines 

 and all overboard. This is what 

 happened to Wes. and me this 

 spring while trolling for salmon 

 in Sebago Lake, Maine. 



We had had some good fishing 

 and were trolling with three lines 

 out when I got one of those 

 "Dandy Strikes" (which we 

 landed). In the meantime Wes. 

 started to reel in the extra lines, 

 which had become completely 

 twisted and kinked, and you know 

 what that means. 



After landing the salmon and 

 the excitement all over, for the 

 time being, the next thing was, 

 "Look at that line !" Fussing^j 

 awhile with it, Wes. suggested go-i 

 ing ashore and unsnarling which 1 

 would take an hour or more. But 

 having been in about the same 

 mixup many times before, I sug- 

 gested this old method of mine. 



We took off everything, includ- 

 ing the leader, from each line, 

 and then very carefully dropped 

 the lines overboard into the water. 

 As the boat was moving all the 

 time, of course, it trailed behind. 

 After putting it all out, each of 

 us took a rod and began reeling 

 in slowly, letting the twisted line 

 unroll itself in the water. In a 

 few minutes our lines were all 

 reeled in ready to be fastened to 

 the leader and resume fishing. 



Hope this kink will be of use to 

 some of the new fishermen if not 

 to older ones, as it is a "life saver" 

 for the lines in many cases. 



A KINK SPREADER 



BY CHAS. FORSYTH 



One day last spring the catfish 

 were biting real well. Indeed 

 they were swallowing the hook 

 down into the stomach in the ma- 

 jority of cases, and not having 

 any hook extractor, I came home 

 at night with my fingers all 

 chewed up. This was not the 

 first time I have had that happen 

 taking fish off the hook, but it 

 was about the worst; so I set 

 about to try and invent some way 

 to obviate the trouble and save 

 my fingers, and turned out the 

 following simple little article that 

 will do the work on any kind of a 

 I fish. 



The accompanying cut describes 

 the "Kink Spreader" as well as 

 words. 



It is made from a rather heavy 

 piece of spring wire, and as for 

 size, is made according to the size 

 of fish you are catching; the big- 

 ger the fish, the bigger the 

 spreader has to be. The one I 

 made for fish up to a couple of 

 pounds is 6 inches long from A 

 to B and 1^4 inches wide at the 

 loop A, with points C-C turned 

 up about y^ inch. These points 

 want to be sharpened some, but 

 not enough to pierce the mouth. 



To use same, when your fish 

 swallows the hook into the stom- 

 ach which quite often happens 

 at certain times, especially with a 

 catfish press points together and 

 insert inside the lips, let loose, 

 and the mouth will be spread open 



