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practically water-tight, 8 inches long, by 4 inches wide, and 15 

 deep, is of Japanned block tin, lined with cork, and the little 

 strokes or line-marks, seen in the engraving, represent so many 

 metal points or pins projecting from the cork in a sloping direction 

 (say at an angle of about 25), and over which the loop or eye of 

 the hook slips. A slight pressure backwards then imbeds the 



DOUBLE EYED-HOOK SALMON FLY BOX. 



points of the hooks in the cork. This double attachment forms 

 a perfectly secure ' hold,' whilst admitting of the flies being taken 

 out and replaced with the utmost facility and rapidity. 



As double-hooks for flies, especially of the smaller sizes, are 

 coming more and more into popular favour, Mr. Ashley Dodd's 

 clever invention (which is manufactured by Messrs. Farlow) 

 supplies a want likely to be increasingly felt by salmon-fishers. 

 For single-hooked flies the box is equally good. 



Another capital salmon fly box on a somewhat larger scale, 

 capable of holding about 100 flies, the ingenious invention of Mr. 

 P. D. Malloch, of Perth, is figured in the wood cut over leaf. 



In this case no cork, nor substitute for it, is employed. Each 

 fly is held securely in its place by the bend of the hook slipping 

 over a ' notched ' steel spring, which forms (by being soldered or 



