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small bodied wobblers can be made to wriggle by re- 

 moving the tail gang of hooks, and if the rear belly- 

 gang is placed well back, the absence of the tail hooks 

 oes not affect the general hooking ability of the bait. 

 Nearly all wobblers are made with belly-gangs which 

 explodes the old theory that baits used beneath the 

 surface must have side hooks. 



Different makers of these baits use different methods 

 of obtaining the desired wobble, such as flutings, angu- 

 lar or concave heads, and metal wings. Some have 

 wings of flexible metal and upper and lower line fast- 

 enings (the screw eyes by which the bait is attached 

 to the line), so that the angle of resistance is changed, 

 making the bait travel at different depths as desired. 

 This type of wobbler can also be used as a surface 

 bait. 



The original wobbler was red and white, and this 

 is undoubtedly the most killing coloration under aver- 

 age conditions. We would rank the other colors, in 

 the order named, as follows: solid red (for clear 

 water) ; solid yellow or yellow and red (for cloudy 

 water) ; rainbow (especially for pickerel) ; green and 

 white. 



As to general usefulness, the wobblers are versatile. 

 We have caught fish with them under practically every 

 condition of water and weather that fish can be caught, 

 which we realize is a pretty sweeping statement. 



Ideal wobbler water is that where the tops of the 

 weeds do not come quite to the surface. Nearly all 

 Jakes and some streams have beds of weed growth of 



