90 CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS 



to the lure will be advantageous. To that end I 

 carry a box of split buckshot. With their aid the 

 rodster can make a surface-lure perform like an 

 under-water, add weight to a light lure for casting 

 against the wind; indeed, he will be surprised how 

 convenient they will prove. (Of course down in the 

 bottom of your casting-case there lies a little package 

 of old fashioned hooks, concealed even as a fly-fisher 

 conceals his can of worms. Well, on the day when 

 the bass refuse to rise and it looks as though yours 

 was to be a fishless dinner, attach one of those hooks, 

 with a sinker above it, dig a worm from a rotten log, 

 and go down after a yellow-perch or ^ock bass.) 



