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SALMON AND TROUT. 



pattern, numbers i to 10, as also corresponding numbers of 

 the ordinary Limerick and round bend, are annexed. 



8 V 9 10 11 12 13 11 IS 



HALL S EYED HJOKS. 



It is unlucky, however, that hooks never ' come out well,' 

 as the expression is, in wood engraving, and even when, as in the 

 present instance, as well as in the case of my own patterns, the 

 utmost skill and care have been ungrudgingly applied, the results 

 are not in fact nearly equal to the originals either in finish or 

 bend. The utmost that can be done, especially with very small 

 hooks, is by a characteristic sketch to convey to the educated 

 and practised eye a tolerably accurate notion of what the hooks 

 themselves would be. Of course this difficulty is increased in 

 the case of hooks which, like Mr. Hall's patterns, are turned out 

 or deflected at the point. 



Mr. Hall informs me that his patterns of turned-up eyed 

 trout hooks are now being manufactured by Messrs. Woodfield 

 \- Sons of Redditch. 



The gut is knotted to the loop by Mr. Hall in one of several 

 ways, but he gives the preference to that already described 

 for knotting gut on to the metal loops of salmon hooks. The 



