162 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
in the form shown in the diagram, fig. 1. Then draw 
the last-made knot tight, and slip it up to the loop, 
drawing the main line also tight as shown in fig. 2, 
which is a facsimile of the knot as tied on a small 
Grilse-fly. In fig. 1 the loop is exaggerated in length 
for the sake of illustration. 
The gut should always be well moistened before the 
knot is tied. 
THE RObpD. 
Salmon-fishers have almost all their peculiar fancies 
about rods. Some pin their faith to the swishy, spliced, 
and somewhat top-heavy weapon which takes its name 
from Castle Connel ; whilst others, going to the opposite 
extreme, will fish with nothing more pliant than the old- 
fashioned, untapered, four or five ferrule-jointed rod of 
the past generation of London makers. The latter would 
doubtless bring against the swishing rod the charge of 
top-heaviness, whilst its owner would consider that the 
extra top weight and “play” of his rod did duty 
instead of muscular effort. He might probably put his 
argument thus :—“In every cast your stiff rod has to 
be worked with twice the movement of arm that mine 
requires :” to which the reply would be, “Yes, but 
then my rod is so lightened towards the point, that it is 
no effort to me to work it.” For my own part I think 
that, like the chameleon philosophers, both are wrong 
and both are right; in other words, that each rod 
