June, 1919 
F O K E S i A JN U & 1 ±1 li. A ivi 
NOTHER USE FOR THE OFFICE 
CLIP 
T he little clip, so universally used in 
all business offices, can be made to 
help out in another way and bring 
satisfaction to the angler as well as to 
the closed up man in the office. Instead of 
using it to fasten papers together, put a 
few in your pocket the next time you go 
fishing and fasten one on your line at the 
place you want your floating bobber to be. 
Pull the stem out of the bobber so as 
to allow it to move freely up and down 
the line. When casting, the bobber will 
fly to the end of the line near the sinker, 
thereby improving the cast, and when it 
strikes the water the bobber will float 
and the weight will sink, pulling the hook 
and bait down with it. The line will run 
through the bobber until the little chip 
strikes it and keeps it from going any 
farther. The diagram shows the way it 
works. There is hardly any strain on 
a bobber as the resistance it offers to 
the water is so small that as soon as the 
fish grabs the bait and swims away the 
little bobber gives right up and sinks, 
so the clip will be strong enough to 
hold it in place. 
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The way to attach clip 
In this way you will have the re- 
quired amount of line beneath the wa- 
ter and the sinker will hold the bobber 
firmly against the clip on the line. Try 
it sometime and you will have another 
use for the already proficient little clip. 
N. H. R., Mass. 
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A SOUNDING LEAD 
I T is often desirable, before fishing a 
likely place in lake or pool, to deter- 
mine the depth of the water so as to 
adjust your tackle to the proper length. 
By using the little device, shown in 
cut, this can be conveniently and readily 
done. Into a lead weight insert a piece 
of spring wire doubled into a loop and 
another wire formed into a hook. Press 
the hook back through the loop and en- 
gage your fishhook, with line attached, 
in the manner shown. The spring wire 
The method used to attach hook 
hook will hold it firmly and you can lower 
away with perfect confidence. The little 
testing device doesn’t take up much room 
in your tackle box. No doubt you have 
often wished for just such a contrivance 
when the stone you tied on your line for 
sounding purposes had slipped off or 
your fingers had become numbed on a 
cold day while tying it on. Anything 
that will save tying is ’a step in the 
right direction anyway, as knots are 
tough propositions at best. 
Often while fishing through the ice in 
winter much of your line has been wasted 
by having to cut away a frozen knot, 
whereas if you had had the little 
lead weight here pictured it would have 
been a simple matter to have attached it 
to your line and have sounded the depth 
of the water through the hole you had 
cut in the ice. 
Redwood, Alaska. 
FAIR WEATHER INDICATIONS 
I F at night there are few stars, and 
those very bright and sparkling in a 
pale, steely sky. If swallows fly high. If 
just before sunrise the sky is a dull gray 
and the sun rises clear, gradually dis- 
persing the vapors. If, after a rainy 
day, the sunset sky is suffused with a 
magnificent streak of crimson (not cop- 
per color). If there is a rainbow at 
night. If there are mists at evening 
over low-lying ground or near a river. 
If a mist in the morning clears off as 
the sun gets higher. If there is a heavy 
dew in the evening. If, after a rain, 
drops on twigs fall and the branches dry 
quickly. These are all signs of fair 
weather. 
Of course. Mother Nature sometimes 
exercises her prerogative and changes 
her mind very suddenly, but on the 
whole she is governed by fundamental 
laws and the above conditions will hold 
true when you are trying to figure out 
such a subtle thing as weather indica- 
tions. 
W. R. J., Okla. 
A PEG FOR YOUR FLY RODS 
T here are a great many ways to hang 
a fly rod, but like a number of other 
things, the best is the simplest. Take 
a clothes-pin, the regular, old-fashioned 
kind, and cut notches along the crotch, as 
shown in cut. Bore a hole in the place 
from which you want your rods to hang 
and drive the pin in the hole head on. 
Engage the tips of your rods in the 
notches and you have mastered the kink. 
The clothes-pin peg 
An ordinary sized clothes-pin will ac- 
commodate four rods in this manner. It 
is a much better plan to hang your rods 
in this way than to lay them horizontally 
across pegs as the weight of the rod 
hanging perpendicularly keeps it straight 
and true and prevents it from warping. 
G. G., New Jersey. 
