Show I It t Tasty Tackle Prepared to Lure Creatures of Stream and Lake Lak 1 Hollow Steel Fly Casting Rod Is New Feature Bi Big r Things Seen for Smacker Spinner By Il DONAHUE NEA Service Sports Writer With pockets just a little fuller than last year a greatly increased I membership of the clan of old ola I Ike e Walton is storming f fishing t counters all over the country to paw over and purchase new items designed de- de sl signed to entice members of the fi flany Y trIbe from th their Ir tan families and fire fire- sides Probably the grEatest development in the tackle line this year is the perfection of hollow steel bait and fly casting rods Your correspondent hu has seen three makes of this type made from hollow drawn steel With two of them he took the blindfold test This consisted of being be be- ing blindfolded and given one of the new rods to hold in one hand and a bamboo in the other Then you OU are arc supposed to guess which is which which- and brother you cant can't do it iLI Which Is Better ThIs new steel offering may settle the old question as to which is the better steel or bamboo The steel unit has all the lightness of bamboo barn bam boo plus the flexibility of the metal Most new offset handles and automatic locking devices which completely remove the pesky of the reel falling off Into 30 or 40 feet of water JUst when a stirring stir sUr ring fight with a bass is at its heIght Reel development has been a bit backward due perhaps to the height of excellence already reached In this Item of tackle There is one new unit out however which Is quite an Improvement It is 15 a tangle no af a- fair designed to prevent backlashes In In addItion to the reel the hI has produced governor con units which may be fitted t tc 1 standard r reels ls of other makes Fly rod reels are arc pretty much the theS S same 1 e with wilh the he exception of a few new automatic unIts being offered Surf Sur casting outfits and reels for lor us use In deep sea angling have differed In one they respect have been produced in a low price cl class and are ver very serviceable Many New Lures Fly rod and bait rod users have one brand new thIng to play with In Ina I Ia a spinner This lure has a I minnow like strip of metal arranged on a shaft heft to revolve rapidly when I pulled through the water It a mInnow In a action Uon and is trailed by a fly or bucktail I hook Then there is a large selection of p bass and trout bass bugs made of cork and feathers or of plain buck taU tall and squirrel tall A new field which fly markers are entering is the nymph and creeper type This type of fishing comIng Into Its own after several years oi 01 experimenting makes make use of imitations of the nymph or creeper stage of varIous flies These lures lure are Bre tied small and made u as closely like the larvae of the Insects as as possible |