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A difficulty which repeatedly besets the less experienced 

 fly fisherman is the inability to place a distinctive title or 

 number to the hook of the fly he is using, or which he wishes 

 to use, and he is at some difficulty in describing the exact 

 size of the flies he requires when wiring or writing to his 

 tackle makers. 



In order to overcome this perfectly natural difficulty, I 

 have had engraved on my knife the exact size of the hooks 

 corresponding to the old and new methods of numbering 

 them. If, then, the fisherman desires to order by wire a 

 fly, either larger, smaller, or equal in size to that which he 

 thinks is the most favourable one for killing his fish, he has, 

 when possessing this knife, the exact gauge always available. 

 This advantage I have also protected in my design of a fly- 

 box, which has already been described. 



I have no hesitation in recommending this knife to my 

 readers, as it is claimed by all who have purchased it to be the 

 best and most desirable knife they have used. 



Every one of these knives, which has so far been made, 

 has been numbered consecutively, and the appreciation in 

 which they are held will be gauged by the fact that the 

 number now engraved on them has nearly reached 6,000. 

 For further particulars as to this and the other articles 

 mentioned in this appendix, see advertisements at the end 

 of the book. 



MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE HIRING OF FISHING 

 WATERS, THE IMPROVEMENTS OF TROUT STREAMS, 

 THE LAYING DOWN OF FISHERIES, AND TROUT- 

 BREEDING ESTABLISHMENTS, 



Not only as a fisherman, but in my profession as Civil 

 Engineer, I have had numerous opportunities of improving 

 the value and capabilities of many fishing waters. For 



