KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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through the middle and then 

 turned. This bag is "good med- 

 icine" and worth trying out. 



HANDY CLEANER FOR 

 THE .22 



BY ROY FIELDS 



Here is a kink that may be ap- 

 preciated by some of our "light 

 armed." It is a cleaner for a .22. 



Get a speedometer "chain" of 

 the type that is nothing more than 

 a small coil spring. These are 

 made of the best spring wire and 

 are just the thing for a cleaner. 

 Cut it off the right length. Coil 

 it up and put it in your pocket 

 and when you get ready for it you 

 have it without the bother of a 

 long brass wire, etc. 



FREEING THE LEADER 



BY A. C. BIGELOW 

 It may be possible to fish in a 

 trout stream with a fly and never 

 get the leader with the fly caught 

 in some high-hanging branch of 

 a tree; but I believe that one of 

 the most frequent causes of justi- 

 fiable profanity comes from this 

 kind of an occurrence. In many 

 cases, aside from the ordniary 

 vexation, is added the loss of 

 tackle because the branch is too 

 high to be reached. 



I now always carry a heavy 

 hunting knife with keen edge, in 

 the usual leather case, strapped 

 on the belt about my waist. When 

 my tackle is caught quite beyond 

 my reach, I simply look about 

 for a small straight sapling with 



small branch growing near the 

 bottom. Then cut it off just be- 

 low the branch, trim it to make 

 a crotch (trimming all other 

 branches off) and reversing the 

 sapling, I loft the crotch end till 

 I can hook on to the offending 

 branch to bring it within reach 

 and get my tackle. As the knife 

 is always right to hand, I use 

 it for all cutting purposes, in- 

 stead of fishing in my pocket for 

 my other knife. A fairly heavy 

 knife will cut a good sized stick 

 in short order. 



FOR CARRYING SPOONS 



BY RAY E. PARKER 

 Here is a kink that may be of 

 use to some brother who uses 

 the fly-spoon and the regular 

 spoons as well. Take a sheet of 

 thin stiff metal (I used spring 

 brass) and cut same into sizes 

 same as the leaves of your fly 

 book. 



Now get some large brass 

 hooks, such as are used on skirts, 



etc., and rivet or solder them in 

 a row at each end of the sheets 

 about 24 of an inch apart and 

 about VT, inch from the ends of 

 the sheets. Now put the tying 

 end of the fly- spoon on one hook 



