| Show good new news for anglers anglem A new type 0 of fishhook the invention of E hindon hyde of new york shows how een the simplest thins thing of common life can bo be readily improved taj improvement consists in transferring the barb of the hook from tho the inside of the point ehrat Is 18 between the point and the shank to the op opposite eldo side of the pil so that it lies on the outside of the hook the advantage of the new hook is that it renders it much more difficult for a hooked fish to release himself upon a slack line firm this Is due to the fact that the new location catlon lo of the barb creates a bar to the extraction of the book hook after athas it penetrated and also to the fact that the barb instead of playing against the soft mucus membrane of the mouth to prevent release as in the old stylo style of hook presses against the hard scientific american |
