TACKLE AND FISHING GEAR. 



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in facsimile, the same knot tied with a metal loop and with a 

 twisted gut loop on an extra-large double salmon hook. The 

 strands of salmon gut used were of equal stoutness. 



FIG. 10. GUT KNOTTED ON 

 TWISTED-GUT LOOP. 



FIG. II. GUT KNOTTED ON 

 METAL LOOP. 



In order, however, to get a perfect result that is, that the 

 hook shank should stand in a line true with the central link of 

 gut it is necessary that the eye of the hook should be turned, 

 up or down, at the inclination shown (fig. 13, p. 12) something 

 orer half a right angle ; and that the loop should 'start,' so to 

 speak, direct from the shank without, that is, any intermediate 

 bending upwards (or downwards) of the shank end, or other 

 deviation from the true horizontal. If this is not strictly ad- 

 hered to the result will be that the line of the gut will not be 

 true with that of the hook shank, and the fly will not swim 

 properly. An illustration of this is seen in the engraving 



FIG. 12. DFFECTIVE TURNED UP EYE. 



(fig. 12), where the very slight 'turn up' of the end of the hook 

 shank itself (c) has been sufficient to produce the result indi- 

 catedthe lower, or dotted, line (A) representing the correct and 

 true line of the gut, and the upper, or solid, one (B) its actual 



