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of these and three or four flies one can readily make 

 up combinations to suit any condition. 



Ordinarily a spinner or spinner and fly is too light 

 to cast on a short rod so it is customary to add a 

 swivel dipsey sinker for extra weight. Personally 

 we use both the double and single spinners, although 

 there seems to be little difference in their effectiveness. 

 The double type is supposed to imitate more closely 

 a swimming minnow, but the single possesses the ad- 

 vantage of being simpler and cheaper; also some cast- 

 ers are of the opinion that with the double spinner the 

 fish often strike at the upper blade and miss the hook. 

 A new design avoids this by having a spinner on the 

 end of each weed guard which brings them alongside 

 the hook. Spinners have the reputation in some lo- 

 calities of being better for small mouth bass than the 

 other variety, but this is more likely due to the fact 

 that the spinner is more often used in streams, the na- 

 tural habitat of the small mouth. 



PORK RIND 



Pork rind in some form or other is probably the 

 bait most used by wielders of the short rod who fish 

 in weedy places. This is especially true in the Middle 

 West. 



Game fish have no particular appetite for pork. Its 

 success as a bait is due to the fact that it is white, it 

 has an enticing flexibility or wriggle when in the water 

 in the strip form, the fish do not eject it from the 



