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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



nice rock on the bottom and has 



gotten under it. And let me say 

 right here, when a mad torn gets 

 under a rock, he will come pretty 

 near staying there, and if you pull 

 your line trying to coax him out, 



the first thing you know the line 

 will come in minus the bait or cut 

 by the rock. Many of you will 

 say, "put a small cork on the 

 snell of the hook and keep him 

 out of the rocks." Well, that's 

 a good idea but when Mr. Bass 

 sees a mad-torn swimming, he 

 knows he does not carry any body- 

 guard with him in the shape of 

 a slug cork. 



Now that youVe read this ex- 

 plosion, I give you the kink. 



Take Mr. Tom in your left 

 hand (careful of his prongs), and 

 with your sharp knife skin about 

 a quarter of an inch of hide from 

 the back of his head (see dia- 

 gram). This well keep him out 

 of weeds, rocks, and away from 

 all growth that will impede his 

 efforts to attract the fish. The 

 idea is this : Suppose you had a 

 wound on your hand just some 

 skin knocked off and in some 

 way the skinned surface came in 

 contact with a board or your coat. 

 You would pull it away, wouldn't 

 you, and mighty quick, too? Well, 

 so will the mad-torn. When he 

 starts under a rock and scrapes 



his head he will come out, and if 

 he scratches his head on some 

 grass he will also come out. Try 

 this, boys, and if you don't have 

 more pleasure with less sweating 

 and catch more fish then I am 

 stung. 



ROD WINDING WITH A 

 NEEDLE 



BY R. W. HOMER 

 All of us have rewound our 

 rods at some time and some of 

 us have had a little trouble tying 

 the ends of the wrapping. I re- 

 member when I wound my first 

 rod, I spent more time fastening 

 the ends of the thread than I did 

 in making the wrap. 



Of late I have used the follow- 

 ing method and found it worked 

 fine: I take a fine needle, just 



large enough to permit thread- 

 ing with the silk. Thread the 

 needle and lay it along the rod 

 (Fig. 1), allowing the needle to 

 hold the thread against the rod 

 at the point you wish to start 



