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Show yi Angling! bi)oldHi j,or jabbing into logs, so a hook 'hone should be used frequently. In many parts of the fishing territory, more anglers are relying on rod holders as an added convenience con-venience in managing their lines while trolling. It's a favorite "extra "ex-tra arm" in taking landlocked salmon sal-mon and togue in Mooseljead Lake Maine. For more helpful dope on tackle and methods,' send a postcard to Old Hi, in care of this newspaper and ask for his free illustrated booklets entitled "Fishing for the Millions," "Salt Water Sports Fishing," and "Pacific Coastal Fishing." Please print your name and address plainly. j.easy and safe to pick up and hold( 'crabs, eels, bullheads, and spine-backed spine-backed fish like bass. They'll grip a pike or pickerel while you extract ex-tract the hook and save the bottom bot-tom of your boat from getting messed up by a flopping fish. Made of heavy guage No. 6 wire and nickel plated, the fish tongs will save you a lot of grief in dealing with rough or spiny customers cus-tomers of both fresh and salt waters. It's worth tucking in your tackle kit. There's a combination knife and fish scaler that 'is very useful also. It has a knife of best cutlery steel blade, serrated for scaling, designed design-ed for cleaning fish in the safest and quickest manner. You use the long edge for cutting flesh only and the end edge for severing the bones. You know fellows, it's often the small or unusual items of tackle i that help to make our trips more successful, or less , troublesome. And in some cases they make it safer for us to carry out the I different tasks of fishing. Take the fish tongs, for ex- ample. Do you have one of these handy gadgets? They make it A pair of long-nosed pliers is a "must" for twisting out deeply imbedded hooks from the mouths of pike, pickerel, and muskies. Your fingers will be saved from some wicked tears by using these pliers. To help in this work, there is a "fish mouth expander" that prys open the jaws of sharp-toothed fish so you can do the job easier. Another article for your kit. is a fine carbon-silicate stone on which to sharpen hooks that get dull. Many fish the lost due to the fact tha the hook points are worn off from scraping against rocks |