Show 8 s JIM RHODY Good Tackle Pays A or not story about the Ocean City reel and Montague rod pictured inseparable companions companions com cOn for nearly 30 years is told by a famous Hollywood cameraman who fishes along the lower coast of CaI California ornia One day the cameraman and a friend were fishing side by side using anchovies for bait The cameraman's cameraman's cameraman's cam cam- friend put his rod and reel down on a piling headed forthe for forthe forthe the bait shack to get hot coffee The rest of this exciting tale follows inthe inthe in inthe the cameraman's own words Rod Goes Overboard Suddenly something hit his line and before I could grab his rod the yo w t sn r 4 I Both good as ever darned think went overboard and started for China We dragged the bottom for hours but ut couldn't find it My friend was furious urious and blamed me for not saving his gear About three months later ater a terrific storm hit Redondo Beach Beach broke up homes tore up streets and demolished many piers After the storm it was hard to do any surf fishing because of the huge quantities of kelp However I decided decided decided de de- de- de to give it a try I made a cast way out and started to reel in I had snagged on to something and in came the rod and reel we had lad lost Of course the reel was full of sand verdigris and marine ions My friend took one look at atthe atthe atthe the reel and said I could keep it Reel Performance Excellent I later soaked it in a full can of kerosene for a week Then I took the he whole thing apart and scrubbed every piece I reassembled the reel reeland reeland reeland and it has worked normally through all the years Only adjustment was made 15 years ago when I sent it back for new washers You'd never guess how much use and abuse that reel eel has taken and how many fish it t has pulled inThe inThe inThe in The rod has been rewrapped but even after all these years it still will match anything of its kind cind Last job of this combination was in August when it brought ina ina in ina a 27 and 33 pound chinook salmon off the Farallones A A A Start Right Before you try stunt shooting learn leani how to hit the bulls bull's eye of a stationary target You'll make greater great great- er progress That advice comes from Charles Edward Chapel a top authority on guns uns and shooting in his latest book hook Simplified Rifle Shooting In a chapter on moving and fancy shooting Chapel tells how the graduate marksman can accomplish some of the known best-known stunts of the exhibition shooters Line drawings detailing several of the stunts were supplied for the new book by Winchester Repeating Arms Company Wait For Apex Beginners shooting at a moving target make the mistake of following the target back and forth with the rifle writes the author of seven standard books for shooters The correct procedure Chapel continues is to catch the swinging target at one end of the swing at the point where it reverses tion A A A Nymph No Sinker Dont Don't use sinker a fishing a natural natural na na- na- na tural nymph unless you have to The sinker interferes with the action imparted by the current and makes it harder to feel eel a strike Dont Don't let your nymph sink to the bottom and lie there Keep it moving fairly close to the bottom and if it settles down lift it up and start sturt it again All lies in riffles are good spots to fish a nymph The spots behind bars rocks in breaks and in the current eddies are good |