1 8 SALMON AND TROUT. 



the Tweed, for example, they are completely driving the single 

 hooks off the water. It is obvious, indeed, that they greatly 

 increase the chance both of hooking and of holding a fish, 

 and against the small additional weight, which may be a 

 slight inconvenience, perhaps, in casting, is to be set the fact 

 that the extra weight has the effect of making the fly swim 

 somewhat deeper, which is a generally desirable result. 



In regard to holding powers of salmon hooks there have 

 been several ingenious inventions in the way of extra barbs. 

 One of the simplest of these is shown in the cut (fig. 17). 



FIG. 17. FIG. 18. 



DOUBLE-BARBED HOOK. 'SLICED' HOOK. 



An analogous invention, though with a different object, is 

 that by Mr. R. B. Marston, of the ' sliced ' hook. The object 

 is, of course, to prevent the bait which has once been put on 

 from slipping down the shank. It might be useful, perhaps, in 

 fishing with some kinds of bait, and Mr. J C. Wilcox, the well- 

 known writer on sea fishing, prophesies much success for it in 

 that department. The manufacturers are Messrs. Millward 

 & Son, of Redditcb. 



Passing from salmon to trout hooks we find that here also 

 great improvements have been made, both in principle and in 

 regard to the actual manufacture of the hooks themselves. 



What promises to be by far the most important of these 

 novelties [I use the words in the relative sense, for the idea is 

 not new, but old] is the attaching of the fly to the casting line 

 itself by means of a metal loop or eye. Eyed hooks, whether 

 turned or needle-eyed, are, as I say. no novelty, having 



