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APPENDIX. 



[AS TO TROUT HOOKS.] 



What a blessing eyed-hooks are in places remote from tackle shops ! Not 

 long ago we were trout-fishing, and only one fly in our book would the trout 

 look at. Of that fly we had but a solitary specimen tied on an eyed-hook ; had 

 it been on gut the neck would probably have broken in a couple of hours, for 

 we were casting up stream against the wind a most trying operation for the 

 necks of flies. However, we husbanded that fly capitally. Each time the 

 gut appeared a little worn we broke the fly off and re-affixed the gut, and by 

 that means used it all day, and had the satisfaction of bringing home twelve 

 brace of plump little trout. How thankful we were to the inventor of eyed- 

 hooks ! Editor, Fishing Gazette, I5th May, 1886. 



" 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 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. BLUE UPRIGHT. 

 6th June, 1885. 



