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jaws; and a screw-driver (for reels) should be 

 in every tackle-box. With this equipment you 

 have a complete repair kit, and can change baits 

 to suit conditions as you find them, ashore or 

 afloat. 



An assortment of eyed flies is handy, too, for 

 the bait-caster. When bass are taking feathered 

 spinners or spoons, changing flies is often advis- 

 able, and this is especially true when single- 

 hook lures are used instead of the now too com- 

 mon trebles. Some anglers remove all treble 

 hooks from artificial lures, replacing them with 

 single bare or feathered hooks, these to be 

 changed to suit conditions. If this practice 

 is followed, it is handy to keep a few lures un- 

 mounted, attaching a bare hook and a minnow, 

 or an eyed bass fly, as required. In this con- 

 nection it is worth noting that few of our hooks 

 of O/O size and thereabout have eyes large 

 enough to go on the wires with which the ma- 

 jority of our spoons and wooden minnows are 

 fitted, necessitating the use of steel split-rings 

 to attach eyed hooks to the lures in a proper 

 manner. 



It is a moot question whether treble and 

 groups of treble hooks are worth the trouble 

 and profanity they cause. Some anglers have 

 decided views on this subject, declaring that they 



