58 FASTENING FOR CASTING-LINE. [PART I. 



I have not much faith, though I have heard of 

 their doing good service ; when they do answer, 

 I imagine it is only on very warm evenings. 



Let me recommend those, who have been in 

 the habit of fastening their casting-line to the 

 line by a loop on each, to adopt the much bet- 

 ter plan of having merely a knot at the end of 

 the line and a loop in the casting-line. They 

 are then most easily fastened by 

 just passing the knotted line through 

 the loop, giving it one turn round 

 it, and then bringing it back again 

 between the loop and the line as in 

 Fig. 7, after which the latter is 



pulled down to the knot. This mode 



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of fastening relieves you from the 

 nuisance of having to pass all your casting-line 

 through the loop, and often saves much trouble 

 if you happen to get hung up. It possesses also 

 the decided advantage of rendering your line 

 lighter to cast with. 



As a mode of fastening bob-flies to the cast- 

 ing-line I find the following much the best and 

 most serviceable that I have ever tried, combin- 

 ing, as it does, the three great essentials of 

 strength, lightness, and general convenience. The 



