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I dismiss this part of my subject with one or two brief 

 extracts from the opinions of practical fly-fishers who have tested 

 and adopted the foregoing system for trout flies : 



" MR. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL'S TURN-DOWN EYED 

 TROUT HOOKS. 



" Having," the writer states, "made a thorough trial of flies dressed on 

 these hooks, against flies dressed on ordinary hooks with gut lappings," he 

 thus sums up : 



"The result of the Week's Fishing, during which my worst day was Four Brace, and 

 my best Nine Brace, is, on every point, favourable to the flies tied on to turn-down eyed 

 hooks. I may summarise these points as follows '. 



" i. The flies never ' flick ' off. 



" 2. They can be changed attached and detached in less than half the time. 



" 3. They are stronger ; because whenever the gut gets at all frayed at the head it 

 can be at once shifted (re-knotted on) whereas with flies lapped on gut the weakening at the 

 head commences very soon, and any change involves sacrificing the fly ; consequently the fly 

 is, in many cases, used long after it has become weak. But beyond this there is, I think, an 

 actual extra strength imparted by the form of knotting to the eyed-hooks (Mr. Pennell's 'jam 

 knot ') as compared with the ordinary lapping. 



" 4. The Turn-down Eyed Hooks appear to me to hook more fish in proportion to rises, 

 and to lose fewer fish after being hooked. 



" I have never met with an instance of the knot slipping. 



Another fly-fisher writes : 



" The 'jam knot ' is the simplest and probably the strongest fastening for 

 trout and grayling flies ever invented ; whilst at the same time owing to the 

 hook-eye having only to be large enough to pass the gut once through it it is 

 also the smallest and the neatest. 



" The combination of Mr. Cholmondeley-PennelFs Tttrn-down Eyed Hooks , 

 with the ' Jam Knot ' produces an absolutely perfect attachment ', and finally 

 solves the great Eyed- Hook problem" 



" The greatest boon to Trout Fishers since the invention of the artificial 

 fly." 



For some further letters and extracts vide appendix. 



