ARTIFICIAL FROGS 



— the latter being an art very difficult to learn — 

 or forced to buy live bait, perhaps catch frogs 

 themselves, my lures will prove a real blessing. It 

 is amazing what price some people will ask for live 

 bait, especially at popular resorts and hotels. 

 When you do get the frogs, after a single slap on 

 the water the poor little beastie will refuse to move, 

 swim, or kick; lying on its back it swells out like 

 a balloon — and so would you and I, if sent swinging 

 by our lips forty feet over the water. 



Setting aside the undoubted cruelty of empaling 

 live bait on the hook for a lure, how much easier 

 it is to fish with a good lure that attracts the quarry 

 — the only real, logical solution of the problem. 



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