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SCIENCE OF FISHING. 



injure the fish as much as a barbed hook, so that the small 

 ones may be returned to the water none the worse for the 

 catching. The other barbless hook is the Edgar, which has 

 a tongue to prevent the fish from getting off. 



Many hooks have been designed for bass and for other 

 surface feeding fish, with weed guards, to prevent the hook 

 catching weeds and grass. Some of these are good and do 

 their work well, but others are so constructed that they 

 turn over quite often when the fish takes the bait and thus 

 prevent the hook from catching. Some of the best kinds are 



WEEDLESS HOOKS. 



1 La Salle ; 2 Henzel ; 3 Cooper's Weedless Porker ; 4 

 Jamison. 



shown in the illustration. It will be noted that they are all 

 weighted; this is to make them ride point up. Quite a novel 

 idea is shown in the Doddridge Automatic Weedless hook, 

 which is weedless only while being drawn forward, the ten- 

 sion of the line tripping the weed guards up to the point of 

 the hook and the guards dropping down out of the way the 

 instant the line is slacked. 



There are also double hooks, made by forming hooks on 

 both ends of a piece of wire and bending it in the middle. 

 This form is not used much but nearly all artificial baits are 

 furnished with one or more treble hooks, which are made 



