56 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
NEW KNOTS FOR GUT LOOPS AND DRop-FLIES. 
SALMON DROP-FLIES. 
Whilst on the subject of Salmon lines I may here 
mention a method of fastening drop-flies on Salmon 
casting-lines (when such flies are used) which I have 
found very successful. The object sought to be attained 
is, of course, that the fly should remain for the longest 
possible time standing clear from—in fact, almost at 
right angles to—the line, with the least amount of 
knotting or thickening, and the greatest facility for 
changing. To secure the first, it is necessary that the 
casting-line should be stiffened at the point of inter- 
section. This is effected by joining the two halves of 
the line in a single fisherman’s knot, leaving about half 
an inch over at each end. The knot having been drawn 
straight and close, these two ends should be lapped 
down to the line with a few turns of light coloured silk 
as shown in figure I of the accompanying engraving ; 
and the effect of this arrangement will be found to be 
