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'"I think with this knot the most exacting and timid of 

 fly-fishers will be satisfied. It is, of course, only applicable to 

 my own patterns of turn-down eyed hooks with small eyes. 

 For large-eyed hooks, or in the case of my own salmon hooks 

 with ' returned ' eyes, the double or single slip knot, with the 

 gut passing twice through the eye, will still be, as heretofore, the 

 proper attachment." ' Shooting and Fishing (Boston, U.S.A.), 



C 



1 HALF-HITCH JAM KNOT ' COMPLETED. 



One more quotation. This is taken from a letter from Mr. 

 Thomas Carr, and published in England, giving a detailed 

 account of his trout-fishing in Tasmania from April 1893 to 

 April 1897, during which period there is recorded the capture 

 of 1,162 fish weighing roughly 4^ tons. This is Mr. Carr's 

 testimony to the excellence of the manufacture of my eyed 

 hooks by Messrs. Wm. Bartleet & Sons ; 



May 15, 1897. 

 To Messrs. Wm. Bartleet and Sons, Redditch, England. 



Gentlemen, Doubtless you will be glad of some recognition of 

 the value placed upon your eyed flies in Tasmania. I have used 

 them continuously for the past five years, have never broken a 

 hook, and have taken many hundreds of fish each season ; in fact, 

 I have a Black Palmer I have taken 100 fish on, and still it is 

 usable. Accept my thanks for what I consider a real boon to all 

 piscators. Yours truly, 



THOMAS CARR (of Launceston, Tasmania). 



The great thing in dressing all flies on these eyed hooks is 

 to leave clear the 'neck,' as shown in the diagrams (pp. 7, 22), 

 to receive the knot. The length of the hook-shank both in 

 the case of salmon and trout hooks is specially designed 

 to allow of this. 



