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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1967
Page
6
Mercury fishing authorities argue that old ideas remain valuable for daily fishing. They cite safety pins as indispensable for apparel repairs and for keeping swivels hooks rings and bell sinkers clipped together neatly.
When fish are finicky tie a trailer hook behind your plug with a small bait for extra strikes. Don’t shy away from weeded ponds cast a surface lure into pads and twitch the plug to draw vegetation movement like a frog. After a few minutes prepare for a strike.
A quirky, unclear passage urges not to cast bread but to prepare day-old loaves for a cricket harvest to improve fishing. It describes halving a cavity to place loaves, aiming to attract captive crickets for better bait. It also mentions storing worm bait in an inverted container like a coffee can.
The note describes placing live minnows in clean glass gallon jugs with the removable top on bottom so worms rise when upright. It suggests using several devices and dropping a single minnow on a book among the decoys for rapid action. Mercury lads advocate reviving these tips when needed.
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