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WATER KNOTS. 



ping : but I by no means recommend the latter 

 for any purpose whatever, and merely mention it 

 that you may not be ignorant of its structure. 

 Taking the two pieces of gut or other material 

 required to be joined, the double water knot is 

 thus made 



Fig. 10. 



Now pushing the bends, 1 1, respectively, over 

 the others, 2 2, and pulling by the ends each 

 piece of gut tight, the knot of each is complete ; 

 and, traversing on the other, you have two knots, 

 which, being pulled close together by the long 

 ends, complete the entire joint. The single water 

 knot is the same, only making one bend instead 

 of two at each knotted end of the gut ; thus 



Fis. 11. 



Another knot is sometimes used for attaching gut 

 to the loop on a salmon fly head ; and occasionally 

 for joining the gut of the fly to the loop of the 

 casting-line, or for attaching the casting-line itself 

 to the reel line loose, thus 



Fig. 1*. 



