skin a chuck with anything but the 
very sharpest pocket or hunting knife 
has developed a respect for woodchuck 
hide as an expanding medium that will 
make him extremely skeptical of the 
expansive qualities of any bullet that 
has driven through two thicknesses of 
this hide, and a foot of flesh without 
even letting out a drop of blood. 
The chuck makes a first-class prov¬ 
ing ground for trying out a lot of 
theories. It will show you the trajec¬ 
tory of your favorite load as you may 
see it in no other way, and it will pro¬ 
vide several months of interesting field 
shooting at a time when most other 
game shooting is absolutely taboo. 
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(Continued from page 369) 
than on others. Some are successful 
early in the season and others later 
and so on. Local anglers and tackle 
clerks often have more information on 
this subject than is contained in the 
pages of books written by learned 
angling authorities. In general, how¬ 
ever, most bait casters are using plugs 
of the wobbling diving type, instead of 
the older under -water baits. Scale 
finished plugs and a combination of 
brilliant red and white plugs have 
taken a lot of fish during the past two 
or three seasons. 
Some anglers contend that plug fish¬ 
ing is unsportsmanlike on account of 
the gang hooks used. Any bait caster 
who has used plugs containing three or 
five treble hooks knows that a bass or 
pickerel has an even chance of tearing 
loose, and escapes quite more fre¬ 
quently than is the case with a single 
hook. This is due to the fact that with 
hooks in both the upper and lower paw, 
the fish has a chance to work its jaws 
back and forth until the hooks pull 
loose, whereas in the case of a single 
hook in either the upper or lower jaw, 
there is no pressure to work against 
and the hook holds, unless the angler 
gives the fish slack line. 
There is much to be said, too, in 
favor of bait casting with artificial 
lures, from an humanitarian stand¬ 
point. Hooking live frogs through the 
lips and minnows through the back is 
dispensed with. The minnow bucket 
can be relegated to the compost heap- 
along with its memories of dying min¬ 
nows swimming feebly on their backs, 
insipid looking crawfish and anemic 
meadow frogs, half dead from confine¬ 
ment in their hot cramped quarters. 
During the course of a day’s fishing 
the angler must make cast after cast, 
hundreds upon hundreds without re¬ 
ward in order that he may get a few 
strikes and perhaps fewer fish. But 
this is a large part of the enthusiast’s 
sport; each cast is like its predecessor, 
yet no man knows just which one will 
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