62 FLY-FISHING AND FLY-MAKING. 



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

 was four brace, and my best day nine brace [this is very 

 good sport on English clear streams] is on every point 

 favorable to the flies tied on to turn-down eyed hooks. 



(1.) The flies never flick off. 



(2. ) They can be changed attached and detached in 

 less than half the time. 



(3.) They are stronger, because, whenever the gut gets 

 at all frayed at the head, it can be at once shifted (re- 

 knotted on), whereas with flies lapped on gut the weaken- 

 ing at the head commences very soon, and any change 

 involves sacrificing the fly. Consequently, the fly is in 

 many cases used long after it has become weak. But be- 



g. 23. THE " JAM " KNOT. 



yond this there is, I think, an actual extra strength im- 

 parted by the form of knotting to the eyed hook (Mr. 

 Pennell's 'jam' knot) as compared with the ordinary 

 lapping. 



(4.) The turn down eyed hooks appear to me to hook 

 more fish in proportion to rises, and to lose fewer fish 

 after being hooked. I have never met with an instance 

 of the knot slipping." 



Though it is debatable if Mr. Pennell invented the 

 (( jam " knot, or has any property in it at all, it certainly is 

 the simplest and probably the strongest fastening for 



