CASTING LURES in 



in less than half an hour. "Don't I believe it?" Of 

 course I do. Here is the truth: the day after, that 

 particular surface-underwater would have failed, and 

 some of the unsuccessful plugs won. Sufficient unto 

 the day is the plug therefore. 



UNDERWATER LURES 



While undoubtedly underwater lures were the 

 first to appear, recent months have produced very 

 few, if any, new ideas in the type. It will be said 

 that the surface-underwaters have all the advantages 

 of the deep swimming lures and none of their dis- 

 advantages, which is in part true, but not wholly. 

 That there is need for lures of the deep swimming 

 variety I am firmly convinced, and so consequentially 

 I expect some original lures to be placed upon the 

 market. Since the now famous "Chippewa" ap- 

 peared I can not remember a single' underwater built 

 after original lines. Perhaps I am wholly wrong in 

 this, for no single individual may keep in touch with 

 a subject of such vast proportions, though I think I 

 am right a measurable portion of the time. 



The deep swimming lure meets a well defined need 

 for a "bait" when fish lie deep. There are days and 

 days when bass will not feed upon the surface, even 

 as there are lakes where they never do. The live 

 bait fisherman meets the problem with heavily 

 weighted hooks baited with frogs or minnows, wait- 

 ing patiently for a "bite." Surface plugs are of no 



