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Show How It Started According to the legend, the story of how artificial lures came to be invented has an affinity af-finity with so many of the gadgets gad-gets that enhance the pleasures of fishing they were first envisioned en-visioned by a country boy. He was the driver of a six-mule six-mule team and was expert at handling the long bullwhip which he carried over his shoulder. shoul-der. One afternoon, the mules stopped at a creek to drink and the boy noticed that trout were leaping hungrily a few yards away. He thought, "Gosh, one would taste good for supper!" He climbed off the wagon and began be-gan cracking his whip against the surface of the water. Suddenly, Sud-denly, a fine trout leaped and struck the red tip, or tassel, of the bullwhip. The boy landed that fish, then stood In his tracks and by the same method managed to catch a good mess. And that, they say, was the beginning of the rod and reel, flies and plugs. 'Stratoline' Does Job Without a lot of technical blather involving obtuse theory and theorizing, theor-izing, the Cortland line company has come up with a triple-taper fly line that seems to be what the doctor ordered in the matter of easy and effective fly casting. Their "Stratoline" is made in all the popular tapers, but in sensible dimensions and weight distributions which do the job a perfect fly line , is supposed to do. Cortland has managed to put the "weight forward" principle of line construction in its proper perspective perspec-tive and, as a result, the "Stratoline" "Strato-line" almost "casts itself." We tested an HCF line on an 8-foot, 3-ounce Hcddon rod, and were delighted with the results. The quick taper of the H-line to C, the length of C-line . which tapers quickly to F, brought out the ultimate ulti-mate in rod action and ease of j casting I j Turtles Voracious Game Manager Harold A. Steinke ! of the Wisconsin conservation de- j partment wonders how many trout i go into the making of a snapping 1 turtle. Steinke shot a snapper which had i a 10 by 8-inch shell on the banks i of Jenning's creek. He found the turtle's stomach contained three brook trout, six and one-half j inches each and still in full color, i plus one four-irch chub and two seven-inch lamprey eels. |