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FOSTER'S NEW INVISIBLE DOUBLE HOOKS. 



The following extract and illustrations are cut from Mr. Cholmondelay 

 Pennell's latest work " Modern Improvements in Fishing Tackle." 



"INVISIBLE DOUBLE HOOKS." 



One other ingenious novelty may be briefly noticed Messrs. D. and 

 W. H. Foster's " Invisible Double Hook," to which various advantages 



are ascribed. The most prominent is indicated in its name. A May-fly 

 dressed on these hooks is represented above, and the cuts below illus- 

 trate the appearance of the fly and position of the double hooks in 

 relation to wings, &c., when seen (A) from above, and (B) from below, 

 when on water. The inventors claim that in the latter case " the hooks 

 taking a horizontal position, whilst the wings and legs are outlined per- 

 pendicularly, the former are not ' outlined ' at all." 



A. 



B. 



FOSTER'S INVISIBLE DOUBLE HOOK. 



From the Field, September i8th, 1886. 



"Messrs. D. & W. H. Foster, of Ashbourne, have introduced a new 

 fly-hook, which is stated to have answered well where tried. They are, 

 in point of fact, two hooks, so placed in the body of the fly that both are 

 said to be invisible to the fish. This is the advantage claimed for the 

 invention, and, indeed, its excuse. The wings and legs float horizontally 

 in the water, thus obscuring the two hooks, which are made of unusually 

 fine wire, so that the double hook (brazed) weighs scarcely more than 

 an ordinary single hook." 



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