CHAP. XX. 



Knots. 



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used on flies not on bare hooks. Quite one-eighth of an inch of gut end 

 should be left with this knot." 



The liability to slip, against which you are here cautioned, may be 

 entirely obviated by the simple expedient of passing the end B, not once, 

 but twice through the loop C, and proceeding as before. You will find 

 it results in a double turn round the shank of the hook, and slipping is 



impossible. It is clear from the diagrams that you could tie either of 

 the above knots less circuitously. 



But to my thinking the following knot, taken, I am told, from the 

 Fishing Gazette, is preferable. It is the one I always use for eyed 

 trout flies in dry fly fishing. Put the gut through the eye of the hook, 

 and run the hook up as far as you like for room for tying a 

 common loop A. Pull the knot B tight, leaving a large loop A. Put 

 the long end of the gut C through the loop A, and lessening the size 

 B o of the loop A, and 



c humouring it over 

 the metal eye of 

 the hook, pull all 

 tight. The end D 

 of the gut will 

 merge in the fly 

 and be lost sight 

 of. The end C is 

 the end attached to 

 D B the collar. 



Sometimes from the repeated bending of 

 the gut at every cast, one has the gut of a 

 whipped fly so weakened close up to the fly, 

 that it is obviously no longer trustworthy, and 

 yet it is an honest fly otherwist, fit for more 

 duty, and you have not another to replace it. 

 What is to be done then ? Look in the margin. 



Winch. The winch for Mahseer fishing should be capable, accord- 

 ing to different writers, of holding TOO, or 150, or 200, or 250 yards 



