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haven't and afterward you wish you hadn't 

 tried. 



Some manufacturers arrange their lures so 

 that the hooks may be changed, just as a fly- 

 fisher changes flies, to suit prevailing con- 

 ditions. Each spoon or spinner is part of a set, 

 the other members in which consist of four or 

 six eyed flies of well-known merit. I may be 

 prejudiced in their favor, but I have found them 

 valuable additions to my tackle because they 

 are killers, and the flies are well made. Every 

 dealer stocks them. 



Many wooden minnows, spoons, and spin- 

 ners are equipped with feathered treble hooks, 

 the feathers on which are red and white. If 

 bass do not take a fancy to them, the angler 

 often thinks there is something wrong with the 

 lure's size and color when the fault lies in the 

 rooster-feathered hooks. A trial of a few lures 

 fitted with royal coachman, Parmacheene Belle, 

 gray drake, Seth Green, grizzly king, buck- 

 tail, silver doctor, or some of the hackles, on 

 single hooks, may alter one's views and give 

 his single-hook lure a wider range of useful- 

 ness. 



If one fly-fishes often, of course his outfit 

 will be much smaller than if he fishes with both 

 fly- and bait-rods, but if he goes far afield on 



