Volume 8, Issue 11

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Kapok - 1. Silky fibers used as stuffing in boat cushions. 2. Promising backfiring sound made by outboard motors after 30 pulls of the starting cord.

 

Kit - Prepackaged, partly finished, unassembled object, such as a fishing rod, which comes in a box, containing all but three of the required parts; a list of 220-volt power tools essential for its completion; and pages 1=12 and 24-32 of the Dutch language instructions.

 

Knot - A tangle with a name.

 

Note: Reprinted for your pleasure from “Fishing, and Angler’s Dictionary” by Henry Beard & Roy McKie, Workman Publishing, New York, 1983.

Jackknife - Indispensable cutting tool generally found in the pocket of a jacket, beneath the front seat of the car, or under the roll of screening on the table in the garage,

 

Jig - Crude but effective artificial lure made of a metal bead and some form of dressing designed not to imitate a particular food favored by fish, but to attract their attention through its motions in the water. Jigs are the simplest and most ancient of fishing lures, and in fact, the oldest known evidence of angling is a carved elk horn mounted on a bone hook found deeply embedded in a petrified log near the remains of a remarkably well-preserved, 14,000-year-old Swiss lake village. Interestingly enough, next to it were the sharply broken remains of a rough-hewn oak pole and a small woven reed basket containing the bones of three tiny, long-extinct minnows.