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SALMON AND TROUT, 



Secondly. Draw the slip knot tight enough only to admit of its 

 just passing freely over the hook-eye (A, fig. i), and run it down to, 

 and over, the said eye, when, on gradually tightening (pulling) 

 the central link, the 'jam knot ' is automatically formed. 



FIG. 20. 'JAM KNOT' ATTACHMENT FOR EYED TROUT-HOOKS. 



Part 2 of the process is best accomplished by the finger and 

 thumb of the right hand manipulating the slip knot whilst the central 

 link is pulled gently by the three remaining fingers and the palm. 



When the attachment is completed and the superfluous gut cut 

 off to within \ inch, or a little more, according to the size of the 

 fly, fineness of the gut, &c., it will be found a very good plan to 

 'nip 'the end down with the thumb-nail, in the direction of the 

 hook-bend- thus further securing the 'jam/ This operation may 

 just as well be repeated whenever the flies are examined, which 

 they should be from time to time in order to see that the gut 

 is not frayed anywhere, and that the attachment is secure. 



Nothing can, I think, well be simpler or more effective 

 than the above fastening, 1 which is also, of course, smaller 

 than the ' in-and-out : method, inasmuch as there is no knot 



1 A \vcll-kno\vn and successful fly-fisher writes to me : 

 'The "jam knot" is the simplest and probably the strongest fastening for 

 trout and grayling flies ever invented ; whilst at the same time cnving to the 

 hook-eye having only to be large enough to pass the gut once through it it is 

 also the smallest and the neatest. . . . 



' The combination of your Turned-Down Eyed hooks w///i the Jam Knot pro- 

 duces an absolutely perfect attachment, and finally solves the great Eyed-Hook 

 problem.' 



