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same as is known to be the case with other creatures in the 

 animal kingdom. 



From this simple beginning the cigarette box soon as- 

 sumed a beautiful, graceful, minnow-like form in divers 

 sizes, colors, shapes all designed to more quickly excite 

 this propensity on the part of game fish. The develop- 

 ment, of course, was gradual and many years passed from 

 the time the first crude block of w r ood covered with its 

 coat of house paint with the hooks suspended in any way, 

 to the real work of art evidenced in the minnows now be- 

 ing manufactured. 



The Art of Casting: 



And, when we say art, we say it with a full apprecia- 

 tion of what the term implies. Being able to cast a lure, 

 light and fluffy as the Buck-Tail Ply, a bait heavy and un- 

 wieldy as is the case with most forms of live bait, or to cast 

 a compact, non-resisting bait such as an artificial minnow; 

 to cast any of these lures against the wind, with the wind, or 

 diagonally into the wind and to cast 30, 40, 80, or 100 feet, 

 and to do all this with a precision that verges nigh on to 

 bulls-eye accuracy, is, in a word, art. It should be under- 

 stood, however, that the skill of the expert is not necessary 

 for ordinary practical fishing. We have seen beginners 

 catch nice strings of fish under favorable conditions, but 

 naturally everyone wants to get out of the "beginners'' 

 class as soon as possible. 



Therefore, if perchance, one may have had trouble at- 

 taining the proficiency in casting that he thought would be 

 his after a few trials, the caster can well console himself 

 with the fact that casting is, in truth, an art and the at- 

 tainment of perfection no trifle. We believe that perfec- 

 tion in casting can be summed up and stated in the use of 

 fourP's- 



Patience, Practice, Precision and Perseverance. 



