SALMON FISHING. IOQ 



the line with a few turns of light coloured silk, as 

 shown in figure I of the accompanying engraving ; 

 and the effect of this arrangement will be found 



to be that the casting-line at that point is trebly 

 stiffened, with scarcely a perceptible increase of 

 thickness or clumsiness. Over the central knot 

 the loop of the drop-fly should be passed and drawn 

 close in the manner shown in figure 3. 



For the tying of these loops, and all others 

 used in fishing, I have, I believe, succeeded in 

 hitting upon a new and considerably improved 

 form of knot, the ordinary loop being both clumsy 

 and crooked (a serious drawback to the perfect 

 set of the fly), and, in thick gut, very difficult to 

 manipulate. My knot (fig. 2, and x in fig. 3) is 

 simply a new application of the principle of the 

 ordinary single fisherman's knot, thus : a half knot 

 is made, about an inch and a half or two inches 



