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gimp on to it. bo aa to Leave a Loop at the head not more than an 

 eighth of ;m inch Long, and another similar loop where the tail of a 



fly would come, that is, at the rial of the shank and at tin' back of 



the hunk. I have tried Loops of salmon gut instead as being less 

 easily seen than gimp; hut I was n,,t satisfied with them, because 

 the gut, when well soaked from fishing, becomes so limp that it 



readily bends, and the result is that the snood is Dot kept in posi- 

 tion, loses one of its turns in the j ielding gut loops, ceases to have 

 two turns round the shank of the hook, and, asa conse<|Uenee, slips. 

 For th<' same reason the tine gimp loops should not he a hit bigger 

 than I have said. Having thus disposed of your lip hook, take the 

 snood of salmon gut or treble gut, on 'which you are going to tie 

 your treble hook, and pass what is to lie the treble hook end through 

 the loop at the head ; give it two turns round the shank of the lip 

 hook, or, if you like, three turns, but certainly not less than two 

 complete turns, and pass \\ through the tail loop, and then on to the 

 end tie your one No. 7 Mahseer treble hook, alter the fashion 

 recommended for tying treble hooks in India. Knot the usual loop 

 at the other end of your snood, and your flight of spinning hooks is 

 complete. Your lip hook will, of course, hang the same way as your 

 treble. 



You will find that, when pulled taut, the two turns round the 

 lip hook keep it effectually from slipping when spinning ; and even 

 should you ehance to hook your fish on that hook instead of tin' 

 treble, it will still hold without slipping. At the same time it is 

 easy enough for you to adjust the length intervening between the 

 lip hook and the treble, by pushing the snood together, so as to 

 slacken the double turn round the lip hook, and you can then 

 work the lip hook either way. The lip hook should thus he 

 adjusted so as to suit the varying size of your bait, by making the 

 intervening space just long enough to bring the treble hook even 

 with the vent, when the lip hook is in the lip ; hut care should be 

 taken to do this when the gut is limp alter having been well 

 soaked, or it is liable to crack, because of the sharp turns given 

 to it round the shank of the lip hook. 



The lip hook will he very much the better tor being an eyed lip 

 hook, for whipping is so untrustworthy in India. I have had the 

 whipping rip right up from having got rotten, and Lost a good fish 

 at the Last moment which 1 should have landed if 1 had had the 

 metal eye in the lip hook to fall back U] 



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