TROUT DROP-FLIES. 3 I 



offering a sort of imperfect representation of a 

 half-drowned insect endeavouring to rise from the 

 water. Cross lines and others are more killing 

 than any other form of fly-fishing, only because all 

 their flies work in this manner. The point, how- 

 ever, is more important in lakes than in streams. 



TROUT DROP-FLIES. 



There are several ways recommended by angling 

 authors for attaching the drop-fly to the casting- 

 line, but most that I am acquainted with fail 

 either in neatness or in strength, and all in 

 rapidity. By one method, for instance, the drop- 

 fly can be properly attached only when the casting- 

 line itself is made ; by another, the knots of the 

 casting-line have to be pulled asunder at the point 

 of junction, and so on. My plan is as follows : 

 Take the casting-line in the left hand a little 

 above the intended point of junction, thick end 

 upwards ; then take the drop-fly, and with the 

 same hand hold it along the casting-line, the fly 

 end upwards ; then, with the other end, make a 

 knot round the casting-line, in the form shown in 

 the engraving ; draw it tight, and push it down on 

 to the next knot of the casting-line below. 



This knot, which in practice is the simplest 

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