io8 CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS 



what that lure will do when in the water is most 

 surprising. Another maker has bored a tapering 

 hole from near the head on the under surface diago- 

 nally up and back toward the rear; as the lure is 

 drawn through the water, the water is forced in at 

 the large orfice, back and out through the small 

 hole. I know of no lure more fish-like in its move- 

 ments. The grooving of the head is various, from 

 the shovel-nose just described, to a simple quad- 

 ruple fluted head. 



Another method used to cause the lure to dive is 

 to attach the' line slightly back of the point of the 

 nose, often used in combination with shaped head or 

 metal attachment. The angler can alter the motion 

 of a lure by simply attaching the line at a different 

 point, though to remove the screw-eyes sometimes 

 used is to break the enamel and so admit water to 

 the wood, the disasterous consequences of which has 

 elsewhere been pointed out. Some makers have a 

 patent attachment, allowing three or four different 

 points of line connection. Others allow the caster 

 to handle the lure "either end foremost," the action 

 differing with the connection. One can not enlarge 

 too much upon the result of line attachment, or of 

 reversing ends, even when the latter was not in the 

 mind of the maker. A bit of originality on the part 

 of the angler, combined with a study of lures will 

 result in changing the action of many a familiar lure. 



Not so long ago my leader fouled with one of the 



