26 SALMON AND TROUT. 



1 With the invention of the eyed hook came the question 

 of how to fasten it to gut length or leader. For bait fishing 

 there was no trouble about attaching the gut to the bare hook, 

 but with feathers, on a small hook particularly, to be considered 

 and not ruffled in the operation, it became quite another 

 matter. Mr. Pennell credits Mr. Alexander J. Campbell with 

 perfecting what has been known in connection with the 

 Pennell turn-down eyed hook as the " Jam Knot," and with 

 which our readers, who are fly fishermen, must be familiar. 

 Major Turle invented a knot known by his name, and used for 

 fixing gut to a bare eyed hook. This knot has been used to 

 fasten a fly to the leader, but it is not necessary to illus- 

 trate it. ... 



* We have mentioned these " back number "knots to pave the 

 way for an article from the pen of Mr. Pennell, taken from the 

 last Pishing Gazette, in which he describes and illustrates a 

 knot which supersedes all others for fastening leaders or gut 

 lengths to flies tied on eyed hooks. We have tried this latest 

 discovery of Mr. Pennell's on large and small flies, and found 

 it so simple and so secure that we recommend the knot above 

 all others for securing the eyed hook fly to leader or gut length, 

 and that the knot may be fully understood we have had cuts 

 made similar to those in Mr. Pennell's article, which are here 

 reproduced : 



'"THE HALF-HITCH JAM KNOT PERFECTED FOR FLIES, 

 BY H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL. 



' " The success of the turn-down eyed hook was to no in- 

 considerable extent due, as far as the artificial fly is concerned, 

 to the discovery, by Mr. A. J. Campbell, of an automatic 

 method of tying the jam knot, which I at once adopted, 

 and I believe communicated to the columns of the Fishing 

 Gazette. 



' " Up to that time a variety of ' dodges,' such as Farlow's 

 ' Fly Protector,' were had recourse to to meet the difficulty of 

 clearing the feathers when manipulating the knot. But they 



