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CHAPTER V. 



Trout-hooks Requirements of a Good Trout-hook Shape of 

 Trout-hooks Bends of Trout-hooks Limerick and Kirby 

 Bends Necessary Strength of Hooks A Bad Batch of 

 Hooks Lightness Essential Pennell Hooks Eyed 

 Hooks v. Hooks tied on Gut Eyed Hooks recommended 

 by Wade Advantages of Eyed Hooks Disadvantages of 

 Eyed Hooks Shape of Eye for Eyed Hooks Mr. Hall's 

 Pattern v. Mr. C. Pennell's How to tie on an Eyed Hook 

 Prejudices against Use of Eyed Hooks Sizes of Trout- 

 hooks. 



IF it is necessary that the rod, line, and gut 

 should be good, equally so is it that hooks should 

 be as perfect, both in shape and temper, as it is 

 possible to make them. To many people a hook 

 is a hook, but whether it is a good or a bad one 

 they are unable to determine ; they use it, and 

 so long as it catches a fish every now and again, 

 they are perfectly satisfied. It will be as well, 

 perhaps, if I try to describe the requirements of a 

 good hook. 



Firstly, it must be of a good shape ; secondly, 

 it must be strong ; thirdly, there must not be 

 one particle of superfluous metal in its construc- 

 tion. It may appear to the reader that I am 



