KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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For those who like to go troll- 

 ing alone, this Kink will be very 

 useful, as the spring does away 

 with all chances of your line be- 



ing broken by the strike of a big 

 fish or by being snagged. 



A SIMPLE LINE DRYER 



BY GEO. C. WHITNEY 

 A very simple line dryer kink 

 is to pull the line off the reel or 

 spool into a pile or heap, just as 

 it piles naturally on the floor, 

 chair, table or dresser. Leave the 

 end lying to one side so as to be 

 easily found when dry. No fold- 

 ing contrivances or rusty nails 

 whatever to bother with and al- 

 ways some place handy. When 

 dry run top end through rod, fas- 

 ten to reel and wind up. Simple 

 as rolling off a log and no "kink" 

 either. 



A very handy back-lash tool, 

 and I believe an improvement on 

 Brother Field's, smaller, lighter 

 and neater, is a woman's crochet 

 needle, size No. 6. 



AN 



PERCH 



EXCELLENT 

 BAIT 



BY N. D. HAGER 

 By following these directions 



you can make a bait that will 



catch from one to a dozen perch 



before giving out. 

 We will assume that you have 



already caught a perch, that being 



necessary in order to make the 

 bait. 



Cut a section out of the top 

 edge of the tail of the perch, 

 about one-half inch thick and one 

 and one-half inches long (see 

 Fig. 1). 



You will then have a piece 

 shaped like Fig. 2. 



Put this on hook by running 

 hook through, as shown in Fig. 

 3, and your bait is ready. 



You will find that perch will 

 bite on this bait quicker than on 

 a minnow. 



Good luck to all who try it. 



FLOATING THE TROUT 

 BAIT 



BY THOMAS J. LUTTON 



On small and very brushy 

 streams, where one must fish for 

 trout with bait if at all, a float 

 or "bobber" is usually considered 

 more of nuisance than a help. 

 And indeed this is so over many 

 parts of the stream. Many ang- 

 lers, as a result of this, forget 



