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TROUT-FISHING IN BROOKS 



by the eyes being made smaller. I confess to 

 disliking sneck-bend hooks, as I do not believe 

 they either fasten or hold fish so well as the 



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Fig. 7- 

 Attachment for eyed flies. Mr. Cholmondeley-PennelTs 



Half-Hitch Jam Knot.' 



Take the fly in the left hand with the eye turned upwards 

 (see B). Pass the gut through the eye towards the hook 

 bend, make a half-hitch or half-knot and drawing in 

 and tightening the main link with the third and fourth 

 Angers of the right hand, and humouring the gut the while, 

 push with the finger and thumb the ' noose ' (which 

 forms itself in the act) over the eye, and pull taut. The 

 knot shown in principle in A will then be found to 

 have practically and perfectly arranged itself round 

 the neck of the eye. which it grips like grim death. 



Fig. 8. 



A simpler knot. Humour the noose B over the eye, pull 

 taut, and snip off the end C. 



straight. The great advantages of eyed hooks are 

 that you can readily attach whatever sized gut 



