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SALMON AND TROUT. 



position when attached to the defective loop. Such a hook 

 as this must obviously lose in penetration as well as in 

 ' flotation 'or ' swimming ' qualities. Again, if the turned eye 

 is set at an angle either greater or less than that shown in 

 the engraving that is, if it is either ' broader ' or ' narrower ' than 



1IG. 13. PKNNELL-LIMF.RTCK' BEND SALMON AND GRILSE HOOKS, 

 TUKNKD-DOUN LOOPS. 



it should be a corresponding deviation in the straightness of 

 the set of the fly, upwards or downwards, will be the result. 



Looked at from the fly-fisher's though not perhaps from 

 the fly-vendor's point of view, the advantages of salmon hooks 

 with metal eyes, made as above, contrasted with flies with gut 

 loops or tied on to the central link, are so great and so obvious 



