Fish and Fishing 



with any degree of knowledge many of the ques- 

 tions put to them. 



Within the last few years, and, indeed, at the 



present time, hook-making is in a transition state, 



especially in the manner of eyed hooks, not only 



for fly-fishing but bait-fishing. I think the day is 



not far distant when all hooks will 



be "eyed," for both large and small 



game, and the old fashion of lashing the gut to 



the shank with waxed silk will be done away with. 



Showing gradual improvement in correct draft line of eyed hooks. 



Eyed hooks will come into practical and general 

 use among anglers. 



In both salmon and trout fishing the matter of 

 eyed hooks on flies is perhaps of much greater im- 

 portance than on any other hooks used in fishing, 

 as it interferes with or benefits the proper working 

 of the fly. Naturally, because fishing is an older sci- 

 ence with them, the eyed hook is an English inven- 

 tion. From the first, Hall's "new eyed hook" or 

 "turned-up eyed hook" was used for dry floating 

 flies; soon after came a decided improvement in 

 the Pennell turned-down eyed hook, with a still 

 further advance in excellence in the new patent, 

 the up-turned shank and turned-down eyed hook. 

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