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complete it, pull the end of the gut, , gradually, and very tightly, 

 straight away : in a line, that is, with the central link, c. 



FIG. 7. SINGLE SLIP KNOT FOR TURNED-UP EYE HALF FINISHED. 



The foregoing is also the best knot for attaching the casting 

 line to flies with gut loops, and should be tied as described 

 in the last page for a turned-down eyed hook. 



FIG. 8. ATTACHMENT TO GUT LOOP, WITH SINGLE SLIP KNOT. 



The same knot may be produced in another manner when 

 the fly-loop is large enough by first completing (separate from 

 the fly) the loop and slip knot, with the doubled-back end of 

 the casting-line ; and, afterwards, passing, from above, through 

 the fly-loop, the ' apex ' of the noose thus formed. The noose 

 is then opened out and turned upwards, so as to envelope and 

 pass over the whole fly, ' lasso-wise ' ; the knot is drawn to its 

 place in the gut loop-, and the ' slack ' gradually taken in. 

 This is the plan adopted by my friend Major G. F. Whittingstall, 

 than whom I know no better or more thoroughly practical 

 salmon -fisher. 



There is a mode of knotting or rather of attaching casting 

 lines to gut-looped hooks, which is very commonly employed on 

 account of its extreme facility of manipulation, and the saving 

 of trouble and time in changing flies. It consists in tying a 



