WHY IS IT WRITTEN? 



Two reasons why 



(Firstly) Because this is pre-eminently an age when men desire to pursue 

 their sport, whatever it be, with their brains as well as with their muscles, and 

 I ihink that lovers of the angle will be glad of a brief record, in a diagramatic 

 form, of the advances both numerous and noteworthy which this art has 

 lately made in all that relates to Fishing-Tackle and Fish-hooks. 



(Secondly) Because, as regards the latter, I wish to make as widely known 

 as possible my own system of Eyed-hooks and method of attachment direct to 

 the line, a system which is, as I verily believe, destined to wholly supersede 

 the old tedious, and in fifty ways objectionable, plan of lapping hooks on to 

 separate strands of gut. 



If I am a true reader of the signs of the times and the sale of 30,000 of 

 my hooks in a few weeks by one London Tackle Maker, would seem to show 

 which way the wind blows this near revolution so vitally affecting all 

 fishermen, and especially the fly-fisher, and that at every turn, and in every 

 department of his art, dwarfs by comparison all other 'improvements ' in fishing 

 gear actual, or I may say possible. 



" The whole art and paraphernalia of angling have for their objects, first to 

 hook fish and afterwards to keep them hooked" 



H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL. 



