58 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
but most that I am acquainted with fail either in neat- 
ness or in strength, and all in rapidity. By one method, 
for instance, the drop-fly can be properly attached only 
when the casting-line itself is made; by another, the 
knots of the casting-line have to be pulled asunder at 
the point of junction, and so on. My plan is as follows : 
Take the casting-line in the left hand a little above 
the intended point of junction, thick end upwards; then 
take the drop-fly, and with the same hand hold it along 
the casting-line, the fly end upwards; then, with the 
other end, make a 
knot round the cast- 
ing-line, in the form 
shown in the engrav- 
ing ; drawittight, and 
push it down on to 
the next knot of the 
casting-line below. 
This knot, which in prac- 
tice is the simplest possible, 
may perhaps be called a 
“double half-knot.” The 
only difference between it and 
the ordinary single half-knot is, that after the gut has 
been passed once round the main line, and through itself, 
it is passed round the line once more, and through the same 
loop again, before being drawn close. 
The preliminary configurations of the knot are shown 
