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The latter bend (vide cut) is, from No. 8 (' New ' Scale) up- 

 wards, especially calculated for Salmon and Grilse Flies, for 

 heavy Sea- trout fishing, or for other purposes where great strength 

 is desirable. 



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" PENNELL-SNECK " HOOKS, TURNED-DOWN EYES. 



(Patent U.S.A.) 



The " Sneck" is restricted in its sizes to what in the float-fisher's 

 parlance would be called small perch hooks and roach hooks, or 

 for fly-fishing purposes to river and lake-flies of the sizes more 

 commonly used for brown trout (salmofario) or to grayling, dace 

 and chub flies. 



Outside the above limitations (in regard to heavy fish) the 

 choice between the two bends of hook in the smaller sizes is 

 really very much a matter of individual fancy. I have myself 

 used both with apparently equal success and I hardly know to 

 which I should give the preference.* 



* To meet the taste of those who, either from habit or choice, retained 

 a preference for hooks with the eyes turned up, rather than turned down, the 

 smaller sizes of the "Sneck" were originally made in both ways, but the 

 unmistakable preference since shown by fly- fishers for the Turn-down Eye, and 



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the advantages it undoubtedly possesses in other respects, have recently led me 

 to think it unnecessary further to consider the Turn-up Eyed pattern, though 

 my Agents, Messrs. Wm. Bartleet and Sons, Abbey Mills, Redditch, would 

 doubtless be prepared to execute special orders, if given for a sufficient number 

 through the retail channels. The mode of attachment by the Jam Knot, re- 

 mains, of course, the same. 



