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to wings, &c., when seen (A) from above, and (B) from below. 

 The inventors claim that in the latter case "the hooks taking a 



A. B. 



horizontal position, whilst the wings and legs are outlined per- 

 pendicularly, the former are not ' outlined ' at all." 



FLIES WITH THE HOOK-POINT TURNED UP. 



A fascinatingly novel suggestion has been made by the Editor 

 of the Fishing Gazette, for tying floating flies on turn-down eyed 

 hooks with the hook point turned up, so that the hook would, 

 according to recent theories of fish-sight, be entirely out of their 

 range of vision. 



The plan is thus described : 



A. B. C. 



When Mr. Cholmondeley-Pennell brought out his turned-down eyed hooks 

 last year, we wrote to him suggesting that it might be a good plan to dress flies 

 on this hook with the point turned up towards the wings, and we got Messrs. 

 Woodfield, of Easemore Works, Redditch, to make some hooks for us specially 

 for dressing flies with the hook in this position. Mr. Holland dressed some 

 flies on them for us, and we found that they floated splendidly, and in ten 

 casts out of a dozen " cocked " on the water, wings up, like life, the point of 

 the hook being out of the water, and, therefore, less visible to the fish. Fig. A 

 represents a Natural Dun with our artificial hook in it, and is only given to 



