1 62 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 



in the form shown in the diagram, fig. I. Then draw 

 the last-made knot tight, and slip it up to the loop, 

 drawing the main line also tight as shown in fig. 2^ 

 which is a facsimile of the knot as tied on a small 

 Grilse-fly. In fig. i the loop is exaggerated in length 

 for the sake of illustration. 



The gut should always be well moistened before the 

 knot is tied. 



The Rod. 



Salmon-fishers have almost all their peculiar fancies 

 about rods. Some pin their faith to the swishy, spliced, 

 and somewhat top-heavy weapon which takes its name 

 from Castle Connel ; whilst others, going to the opposite 

 extreme, will fish with nothing more pliant than the old- 

 fashioned, untapered, four or five ferrule-jointed rod of 

 the past generation of London makers. The latter would 

 doubtless bring against the swishing rod the charge of 

 top-heaviness, whilst its owner would consider that the 

 extra top weight and "play" of his rod did duty 

 instead of muscular eftbrt. He might probably put his 

 argument thus : — " In every cast your stiff rod has to 

 be worked with twice the movement of arm that mine 

 requires :" to which the reply would be, " Yes, but 

 then my rod is so lightened towards the point, that it is 

 no effort to me to work it." For my own part I think 

 that, like the chameleon philosophers, both are wrong 

 and both are right ; in other words, that each rod 



