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bring it within the practical reach of all ; and in the words of 

 an enthusiastic friend to have thereby ' confened upon trout- 

 fishers the greatest boon since the invention of the artificial fly.' 

 Another experienced trout-fisher, whc has given my system 

 a thorough trial, writes : 



'The "Jam Knot" is the simplest, and probably the strongest 

 fastening for trout- and grayling-flies ever invented ; whilst at the 

 same time owing 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. 



1 77/i? combination of your Turned-Down eyed hooks ivith the 

 "Jam Knot" produces an absolutely perfect attachment^ and finally 

 solves the great Eyed Hook problem? 



In venturing to quote this laudatory expression of opinion 

 I would be understood to in no sense derogate from, or mi- 

 nimise the important labours of Mr. H. S. Hall and other able 

 explorers and pioneers in the same direction labours which 

 entitle them to our gratitude. But for their good work the 

 present combination would probably never have been arrived 

 at at least in our time. After saying this, however, the 

 fact remains that of all existing systems of eyed-hooks, none 

 owing to one defect or another has been generally adopted, 

 or seems likely to be so ; whereas I am sanguine enough to 

 believe that in a few years the turned-down eyed hooks I have 

 elaborated and the Jam Knot attachment by whomsoever origi- 

 nally invented, but certainly perfected by Mr. Campbell's admi- 

 rable discovery will have become universal all over the world. 



The following extract from a highly-practical letter, published 

 in the Fislting Gazette of June 6, 1885, under the signature 

 of ' Blue Upright,' and entitled 'Mr. Pcnnell's Turned-down 

 Eyed Trout-hooks,' corroborates my own experience : [Having, 

 the writer says, tested them during an entire week against the 

 ordinary flies lapped on to gut, 'so as to contrast them fairly,' 

 he thus sums up in favour of the turned-down eyed hooks :] 



'The result of the week's fishing, during which my worst day 

 was four brace and my best nine brace, is, on every point, favour- 

 able to the flies tied on turnfii-doivn cycd-]woks. 



