With What to Get Them 



smaller gut can be used. The main point is to 

 have the knot neat and so easily made that it can 

 be undone without using a knife to cut the gut, 

 which soon becomes too short for service if cut 

 often. Many of the trout and bass leaders are 

 now made with loops, generally three loops, so 



Salmon drop-fly attachment. 



that if eyed hooks are used the snell has simply a 

 loop tied at one end, leaving the other end to be 

 affixed to the hook by a jam knot, the length of 

 the snell being not over three inches. Short snells 

 and droppers stand out much better from the 

 leader. 



EQUIPMENT 



DRESS 



To some "half the fun " of fishing is to get soak- 

 ing wet, but they are mostly in the period of "wild 

 youth"; in after years, and having become vete- 

 rans, they would give something considerable to 

 have omitted such fun. Getting soaked and re- 

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