FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



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tight as in fig. 2. The extra knot prevents the 

 loop slipping up the cast, whilst the double 

 strand does not fray so soon as a single one 

 would. All large drop flies should be thus 

 attached, and also flies of all sizes, when fishing 

 either for white trout or where the fish run 

 very large. 



This last is also the best plan to adopt when using a 

 drop fly for salmon, but the space between the two knots 

 should, in this case, be first whipped over with waxed silk. 

 All whippings whatever on casting lines for trout and 

 grayling fishing should be utterly repudiated; they are 

 only used by bunglers, and arc never necessary. 



It is a common mistake to make the droppers too short 



