8 SALMON AND TROUT. 



The following verbal instructions may perhaps assist the . 

 tyro, in attaching his casting line to a turned-down eyed salmon 

 hook for the first time. 



Take the hook by the bend between the finger and thumb of 

 the left hand, with the eye turned downwards (in the position shown 

 in the diagram, fig. 5) ; then the gttt being first thoroughly well 

 soaked push the end, with a couple of inches, down through the 

 eye, B, towards the point of the hook ; then pass it round over the 

 shank of the hook, and again, from the opposite side, downwards 

 through the eye in a direction away from the hook-point. [The gut 

 end and the central link will now be lying parallel.] Make the single- 

 (or double-) slip knot, A, figs. 4 and 5, round the central link, C, 



FIG. 6. FACSIMILE OF SALMON FLY WITH TURNED-DOWN METAL EYE 

 ATTACHED TO GUT. 



and pull the said knot itself perfectly tight ; then draw the loop of 

 gut, together with the knot, A, backwards (towards the tail of the 

 fly) until the knot presses tightly into and against the metal eve of 

 the hook, B, where hold it firmly with the fore-finger and thumb of 

 the left hand, whilst with the right hand and 'humouring' the 

 gut in the process the central link is drawn tight, thus taking in 

 the ' slack ' of the knot. When finished, cut the superfluous gut 

 end off close. [For tying this knot to a turned-up eyed hook 

 vide fig. 7.] 



To tie a double slip knot : first make a single slip knot, a, 



r:^ ,,,. c and, before drawing close, pass the gut 



end, />, a second time round the central link, r, and then again 

 through the loop, a when the knot will be like ' A ' in fig. 5. To 



