108 SALMON FISHING. 



or one Grilse and one Salmon-fly, can be used with 

 advantage. The bob-fly or dropper in lake Trout- 

 fishing is often the most killing fly, because when 

 properly worked it skips along the ripple like a 

 real live insect endeavouring to rise after a partial 

 immersion ; but the Salmon-fly, which is appa- 

 rently not taken for a fly at all, kills best under 

 water. If White-trout, however, are in the river, 

 a White-trout fly, as the dropper, may often be 

 used with advantage. 



NEW KNOTS FOR GUT LOOPS AND DROP-FLIES. 



I may here mention a method of fastening drop- 

 flies on Salmon casting-lines which I have found 

 very successful. The object sought to be attained 

 is, of course, that the fly should remain for the 

 longest possible time standing clear from in fact, 

 almost at right angles to the line, with the least 

 amount of knotting or thickening, and the greatest 

 facility for changing. To secure the first, it is 

 necessary that the casting-line should be stiffened 

 at the point of intersection. This is effected by 

 joining the two halves of the line in a single fisher- 

 man's knot, leaving about half an inch over at each 

 end. The knot having been drawn straight and 

 close, these two ends should be lapped down to 



