As with the 'cost,' so, in my experience, with the ' trouble' it 

 is less, not greater an opinion corroborated by other amateur 

 fly-tyers. In fact it is almost a self-evident proposition that 

 a process in which there is less to be done, must, cater is par ibus, be 

 quicker than one in which there is more. The process is shortened 

 and simplified by there being no gut lapping to do ; and it is 

 made easier in the presence of the hook-eye, which facilitates the 

 tying of the wings, and " finishing off," forming a sort of ' head' 

 over which the lapping cannot slip. . . . 



However, it is no part of the design of this book to enter, 

 as a general thing, into questions of cost. Fishermen are quite 

 well able to take care of themselves, and I have done my 

 part if I can advise them what is the best thing to get. 

 The price at which they get it is a matter beyond my province. 



SALMON HOOKS. 



Some, at least, of the advantages which in the preceding 

 pages are claimed for the turn-down eyed hook as applied to 

 Trout flies and smaller sized hooks generally, may also be 

 thought to belong to it for the dressing of salmon and grilse flies, 

 and generally for all hooks which are used of large sizes and 

 intended for heavy work. The most obvious advantage is that 

 the fly often an expensive affair will certainly last as long as 

 silk and feathers hold together, instead of its life being limited 

 by the duration of the gut-link or gut-loop to which it is 

 attached. 



