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DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW IDEAS FOR 

 FLOATING NATURE LURES 



ANGLERS so often write: "I don't need or want 

 a bait to float I want to fish on the bottom." 

 Herein they are either entirely wrong, or they 

 misunderstand the situation. They do need a 

 floating artificial to fish on the bottom, and after 

 they get to know my method, they write to con- 

 fess that they were wrong. Indeed the crux of my 

 entire effort is to avoid the faults of commercial 

 baits made by machinery, which, if you allow 

 them, lie dead, inanimate on the bottom, whereas 

 my baits are made to float suspended in the water, 

 at any place or depth you desire, from a few inches 

 off bottom up to the surface. I don't expect an- 



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