How to Get Them 



that know how to handle them. The buck- tail 

 seems to have found a place that the old red- 

 and-white feather had on the spoon. Pflueger 

 has a buck-tail bass fly, trout fly, phantom, gang 

 fly, casting spoon and minnow, each one of them 

 being merely a bunch of white hair of the buck's 

 tail, with different attachments, but all are quickly 

 pushing forward as successful baits. Again, from 

 the plain spoon has developed the pilot, the pilot 

 spinner and turn-a-frog. Another good lure is the 

 Mohawk darter, which has the remarkable feat- 

 ure of darting as well as revolving. The silver 

 soldier is made of a thin, simple piece of silver, 

 curved and shaped like a minnow. 

 These, when properly used in the right 

 places, succeed in luring fish. Trolled with a 

 sinker, the silver soldier is a good lake-trout lure. 

 Still more remarkable are the coaxer and teaser 

 baits, shaped like a small bird with white body 

 and red wings; they take fish a-plenty, in some 

 way, perhaps by teasing and coaxing; if so, they 

 are rightly named. The remarkable devices in- 

 vented to slip through weeds are another develop- 

 ment of tackle that takes a load of trouble off the 

 angler. They may not always succeed, and may 

 sometimes miss a fish if gingerly taken; but that 

 is a small matter if they serve the purpose of going 

 through a weed patch in comparative 

 Lures & safety. The new idea of having spin- 

 ners revolve both ways in order to 

 avoid a kinking line is another boon to anglers, 

 because many spin so fast as to put a stop to fishing 

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