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SUCCESS WITH MR. PENNELL'S TURN-DOWN EYED HOOK 

 AND JAM KNOT. 



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You will be pleased, Sir, to hear that I can now record myself another 

 " convert" to the eyed-hook system. It has taken me a year or two to change, 

 but I think now the transformation is complete. I came here provided with 

 Mr. H. R. Francis's patterns dressed by Farlow on Mr. Pennell's turned-down 

 eyed-hooks, and, am pleased to say, have found them very effective, particularly 

 the Hare's Ear and Olive Dun. . . . 



I should say that if the gut is properly moistened, a slip is next to impossible. 



J. ASBRIDGE HALL 

 (Member of the Fly Fishers' Club, Kilnsey Club, and Yorkshire 



Anglers' Association). 

 1 7th April, 1886. 



SIR, Allow me to add my testimony to that of Mr. Asbridge Hall as to 

 the excellence of Mr. Cholmondeley- Pennell's Turn-Down Eyed-Hook system 

 with the Jam Knot. I have been using nothing else constantly for the last 

 month, and cannot say too much in their, and its, praise. The ease and sim- 

 plicity with which the flies are attached, even in the most boisterous weather, 

 the saving of both time and trouble by the quickness of the Jam Knot, and the 

 escaping of all need of soaking and tying on flies, really leave nothing to be 

 desired ; and though I must admit I started with modest expectations of success, 

 or I might even say with almost a prejudice against "them new-fangled 

 notions," as my keeper expressed it, I confess practical trial has converted me 

 entirely to Mr. Pennell's system, and I shall never use any other in future. 



With regard to the special bends of hook and I have used both the " Penned 

 Sneck" and the " Pennell Limerick" these are, of course, matters quite 

 separate and apart from the system itself, and I rather incline to think that 

 some, at any rate, of the hooks I have used of the "Limerick" bend turn 

 rather too much inwards , and that a slightly "ranker" point-side would be 

 surer of hooking, especially when fish are rising shy. This, however, is a 

 matter of detail, and may very probably be the result of imperfection in the 

 manufacture, as I do not find it in all the hooks. I enclose my card. I 

 am, &c., 



DEVON MINNOW. 



P.S. The attaching of the flies to separate gut strands " tied on short 

 lengths of gut at one's leisure instead of at the river side " would at once 

 rob the system of half its attractions and advantages. I have not had a single 

 instance of the Jam Knot slipping, even when using the very finest drawn gut. 



ist May, 1886. 



