22 ANGLING FOE GAME FISH. 



21b. trout. Good gut is long, round, free from specks wlien 

 lield up to the light, supple, transparent, and strong. 



To Make a Tapered Gut Cast at least three different sizes 

 of gut are necessary : the thickest, only a little finer than the 

 end of the running line ; the finest, as fine as you think desirable. 



Fig. 8. A Reliable Gut Knot. 



next the fly ; and some of an intermediate size. First stain the 

 gut by placing it in Stephens' blue-black ink for a few minutes, 

 and afterwards washing it in clean water; this will give it 

 a pale neutral tint, which is not to be improved on for chalk- 

 stream fishing. Before being knotted together, the lengths 



