Inland, freshwater streams provide not only fish, but turtles, eels, freshwater crocodiles, and a range of freshwater prawns and crayfish (yabbies etc)
Second, they must have minimal impact on the action of your lure
From some worn later examples, it looks to me like the level wind tube under the chrome plating is the same bronze material, though when I got this one, it was fairly obvious from the heavy tarnish, that it had 'probably' always been unplated
This latest discovery looks a bit like a hunchback, with a large, strange looking mouth and an even stranger zig-zagging fishing pole coming out of its head
But taking off those raised edges might make it worse
In this situation, you will be chasing schools and likely have little success catching any bait