124 KNOTS USED BY FISHERMEN 



DRY FLIES 



I should advise you always to get " eyed double- 

 winged " flies, the eye of the hook turned down. Use 

 a large fly in preference to a smaller one. Never buy 

 flies with the gut tied to the hook when eyed flies are 

 to be had. 



There are many days, mostly in fine weather and 

 clear, calm water, which require the floating fly to be 

 in the most perfect condition possible, while on a few 

 other days, and in perhaps rougher water, the more 

 fluffy and knocked about the fly be, the more deadly it 

 appears to become. 



When hesitating as to the sizes of any fly it is 

 better to choose the large one, even on such educated 

 waters as the Itchen and the Test. 



But it must also be remembered that educated 

 trout may easily be " put down " by a fly larger than 

 the natural fly to which they are accustomed. 



KNOTS USED IN TROUT FISHING 



Hardly a book on fishing has been written which 

 has not dealt with the subject of the knots which are 

 used by fishermen when fastening their line to their 

 casts, fastening two parts of a broken cast together, 

 attaching a dropper to the cast or the gut to the hook. 

 I shall deal, therefore, with this subject in the most 

 elementary manner. The knot which of all others may 

 be considered the fisherman's knot is the overhand 

 knot (see Diagram 10, Fig. 3). This is the simplest form 



