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then pulled down, so that the knot thus made slips down 

 to the eye of the hook. 



If two ends have to be joined, one overhand knot is tied 

 in one end, and the other part passed through this knot, and 

 then tied in an overhand knot round the other part (see 

 Diagram 7). Notice how the ends come out. All that 

 remains to be done is to draw these two overhand knots 

 taut on the piece of gut they enclose, and then draw the 

 two knots together. This makes the neatest of all joins, 

 but for additional security, and so that the end of the gut 

 can be cut absolutely short, a double turn of the end can 

 be made in each overhand knot before it is drawn taut. 



When attaching a dropper to a cast, the best way is to 

 make a fairly large overhand knot in the short end of gut 



DIAGRAM j. 



Showing the method of joining the ends of two pieces of gut with 

 overhand knots. 



attached to the fly, and to pass the fly through this knot, 

 enclosing the cast in the loop thus formed. The overhand 

 knot is then drawn taut, and the loop is then placed 

 at the spot at which the dropper has to hang, the loop 

 closed by pulling on the fly, and the end cut short off (see 

 Diagram 4, Fig. 1). 



The best method of fastening your line to the end loop 

 of the gut cast is to thread the end of the line through the 

 eye, bringing it round both parts of the eye, and slipping 

 it underneath its own part. This again gives the " sheet 

 bend " (Diag. 5, Fig. 5). A small knot in the end of the line 



