Vintage Chum - Sportscope, Desert Anglers, 1954
Vintage film of bass fishing on Lake Mohave.
Vintage film of bass fishing on Lake Mohave.
An improved fishing rod for use by sports fishermen, the rod including a mechanism for casting the baited hook out into the water. The mechanism consists of an inflatable gas pressure can in the rod handle, gas being released by a trigger so that the released air quickly pushes a piston against a rear end of a rod that is slidable in a rifle-like barrel. A forward end of the rod extends from the barrel and has a cup in which is placed a baited hook attached to the fishing line so that when the rod is struck by the piston it thrusts the baited hook out into the water.
In this position, as shown in the drawing, the fish B, when approaching the bait s, will see the reflection B, of himself in the mirror, also coming for the reflection of the baits, and will be made bolder by the supposed companionship, and more eager to take the bait before his competitor seizes it. He will lose his caution, and take the bait with a recklessness that greatly increases the chances of his being caught on the hook.
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From the Wright and McGill vintage film archive.