WHIPPINGS, SERVINGS, KNOTS, ETC 



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if carried in an old tobacco pouch, the interior of which has 

 been previously moistened. 



To fasten the reel line to the loop at the end of the gut, 

 gimp, or other snood, there is nothing better than the common 



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RUNNING LINE KNOTTED 

 TO LOOP OF PATER- 

 NOSTER, ETC 



RUNNING LINE ATTACHED TO FLY CASTS 

 OR WHIFFING SNOODS BY FIGURE OF EIGHT 

 KNOT 



bend ; but as a precaution I should put a little knot at the 

 end of it as shown in the illustration. When fishing with 

 the fly the line is drawn back through the water a good deal, 

 and this projecting end is undesirable. A capital knot which 

 I can also recommend to salmon fishers for attaching the 



