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 ture^^irl^Li^^iiles our railway 



A NEW FISHING REEL 



Speaking of popular fishing resorts, remarked Mr. T. 

 G. Wiles, of Kansas City, Mr. C. M. Lucas, my partner in 

 the Advertising Agency business, and I once conducted a 

 hotel for anglers and sportsmen in northern Missouri. Game 

 was abundant in that vicinity, and several species of game 

 fish could be found in the lake and river near the hotel. The 

 experienced anglers visiting that region always secured large 

 catches of fish, but frequently some ambitious men from the 

 cities, having no knowledge of fish and fishing, would be disappointed, as 

 their efforts in the way of angling reminded one of the old time style of 

 flailing on a threshing floor. This of course frightened away the black 

 bass and other game fish, so we were obliged to invent something which 

 would secure a well-filled creel for each one, as we could not afford to lose 

 their patronage. 



We were quite expert in fly fishing, and we quietly manufactured 

 something in the form of a windmill, and attached to each arm of this 

 unique fishing machine a good length of fine line, and by way of bait would 

 place a neat artificial fly at the end of one line, a grasshopper upon the next, 

 and other attractive lures upon the remaining lines. With a good breeze 

 the fishing apparatus would work automatically, and everything was so 

 adjusted that the baits would fall ujDon the water as light as a thistle down. 

 When there was no breeze, an assistant was employed to run this fishing 

 reel, and some of the largest catches of game fish in that region were, in 

 this way, made by men who knew nothing about practical angling. 



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