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ing tne end under these, winding tight, then 

 pulling the silk under; but it, too, is tedious. 



Many years ago I discarded these methods 

 for the separate pull-through, and have used 

 it in all windings since then. It may be an- 

 cient, but I have never seen it described in any 

 work on fishing tackle.* It is, however, one 

 of the most useful of all wrinkles, and is par- 

 ticularly handy in splicing silk lines. With this 

 pull-through fancy windings of only two or 

 three turns of silk can be so neatly made that 

 only after "minute inspection can the blind ends 

 of the silk be seen. Indeed, I have heard 

 anglers assert that such windings had been 

 pasted down with shellac, and only after in- 

 specting them with a magnifying glass were 

 they convinced that the silk ends were actually 

 pulled under and cut off. 



I have examined split bamboo tournament 

 rods in which the lower strips had given way 

 through hard usage, but the narrow bands of 

 silk had held so firmly that they were all rup- 



* In reviewing " Rodmaking for Beginners," Hugh T. 

 Sheringham, angling editor of the London Field, said, 

 among other things : " Here and there he gives some 

 very sage advice of general application, and some ad- 

 mirable hints. Among these may be mentioned his system 

 of finishing off a whipping by means of a ' pull through,' 

 quite one of the most useful things we have seen for 

 some time, and one which we do not remember to have 

 seen elsewhere." 



