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for; not so with the eyed hook, the fly will last for 

 years and years, you can always tie on a fresh and new 

 piece of gut ; the same if the gut gets chafed or worn, 

 and you can use stouter or finer gut as it suits you, and 

 these are enormous advantages. But beyond all that there 

 is a great advantage in the fact that you don't whip off 

 one eyed hook for six of ordinary flies, and, as I use a 

 double handed rod and very fine tackle and small flies, 

 before I got the eyed hooks I used to whip them off by 

 the dozen, so much so that if I was short of a killing 

 pattern and there was any wind on, I got quite nervous in 

 making a long cast for fear I should lose my only killer. 

 Now, however, I have no such fears, I can flail away as I 

 list, and only now and then does the magic " snap " 

 announce that another good fellow has gone wrong. We 

 anglers owe a debt of gratitude to, Mr. Hall, who has spent 

 endless time and trouble in perfecting these hooks, for a 

 000 eyed hook is a marvel. You almost want a micro- 

 scope to see it, but don't the fish come at them ! My ! 

 Messrs. Hutchinson are the makers of these hooks, and 

 have spent much time and labour over them, and the 

 hooks (to us, at any rate) are worth it. 



Though they dress their flies somewhat differently in 

 Derbyshire, Cumberland, and the north, in some places 

 tying them all with hackles only, &c., yet, if you observe 

 them closely, you will find that they are very fair imita- 

 tions of the duns, spinners, <fcc., which we use ; still, the 

 angler will always do well, if he conies into a new neigh- 

 bourhood, and finds a pretty good local tyer, who is a 

 fisherman too, to give his flies a trial. Long experience of 

 a stream must teach a man something. If he cannot get 

 on with them, then he can resort to his own, or he can try 

 his own for a change. In mountain becks, the small red, 



