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MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 



but most that I am acquainted with fail either in neat- 

 ness or in strength, and all in rapidity. By one method, 

 for instance, the drog-fly can be properly attached only 

 wh^n the casting-line itself is made ; by another, the 

 knots of the casting-line have to be pulled asunder at 

 the point of junction, and so on. My plan is as follows : 

 Take the casting-line in the left hand a little above 

 the intended point of junction, thick end upwards ; then 

 take the drop-fly, and with the same hand hold it along 

 the casting-line, the fly end upwards ; then, with the 



other end, make a 

 knot round the cast- 

 ing-line, in the form 

 shown in the engrav- 

 ing; draw it tight, and 

 push it down on to 

 the next knot of the 

 casting-line below. 

 This knot, which in prac- 

 fic.3 I tice is the simplest possible, 



may perhaps be called a 

 "double half- knot." The 

 only difference between it and 

 the ordinary single half-knot is, that after the gut has 

 been passed once round the main line, and through itself, 

 it is passed round the line once more, and thivugh the same 

 loop again, before being drawn close. 



The preliminary configurations of the knot are shown 



