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nearly coincident with the direction of force applied. 

 (See dotted lines. ) It will, I think, anyhow, be conceded 

 that this hook is a great advance on that in use in 1496 

 four hundred years ago. (See Figure 21. ) Another hook 

 of high reputation on the "other side" is that brought 

 out by Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell recently, both with 

 tapered shank, and with an eye formed by a continuation 

 of the shank. Figure 22 shows these hooks, though, I 

 am sorry to say, very imperfectly. The ad vantages of an 



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Fig. 22. PENNELL'S EYED AND TAPERED HOOK. 



eyed hook are very great whether of the bashful or bold 

 order. 



A writer of some repute, in the "Fishing Ga- 

 zette," June 6, 1885, thus sums up the advantages 

 of the turn down hooks, and, though I believe my own 

 pattern (with turn UP eye added) far superior (yet, 

 until some firm undertakes to make it, it is practically 

 useless), I give the opinion for what it is worth. "Hav- 

 ing," the writer states, " made a thorough trial of flies 

 dressed on these hooks against flies dressed on ordinary 

 hooks with gut lappings," he thus sums up: "The 



