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I would here recommend the use of eyed-hooks, especially to those who 

 only get an occasional day's salmon-fishing. I have now in my book flies on 

 eyed-hooks four or five years old as good as the day they were tied, while you never 

 can depend absolutely on a gut loop after one season, and frequently they get 

 worn and unreliable after one day's fishing. With eyed-hooks, on the contrary, 

 by exercising a little care in shifting the foot link occasionally, a salmon fly is 

 almost indestructible, and one of their chief recommendations is the ease with 

 which this can be done unlike the heart-breaking work of changing the link 

 of a gut-looped fly when the gut has got jammed by use. 

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GREEN WREN. [Extract.} 

 AS TO EYED-HOOKS FOR BLACK BASS FISHING. 



I have said nothing about the kind of hooks to use, for there are so many 

 to choose from and anglers have such different views upon the matter, but as I 

 have mentioned other tackle, I will say that Pennell- Limerick, improved 

 Pennell, or O'Shaughnessy hooks are, in my opinion, best. A. N. CHENEY, 

 The American Angler. Special edition, 1st April, 1886. 



" PENNELL-LIMERICK " BEND FOR TREBLE HOOKS OR 

 TRIANGLE. 



From the same article. 



The last of the tackle to mention is what is fastened to the end of the line 

 the minnow gang, or flight of hooks, as our British cousins call it. The treble 

 hooks for the gangs are made by soldering three first quality, round wire, 

 O'Shaughnessy hooks together back to back. Since the above was written, I 

 have become favourably impressed with the improved Pennell hooks ; and more 

 recently with the " Pennell-Limerick," which I consider the best hooks as to 

 shape that are made. 



EYED HOOKS FOR FLOAT FISHING. 



From Editorial Notes, Fishing Gazette, 3rd October, 1885. 



We do not see why eyed-hooks should not be used extensively for bottom- 

 fishing roach fishing, perhaps, excepted. It is no more trouble to tie on an 

 eyed-hook than'to loop on one tied on gut, and there would be none of the 

 danger caused by the binding coming off. We threaded a worm up the shank 

 and over the eye of an eyed-hook we tied on as an experiment the other day. 

 The result was satisfactory, the knot in the gut acting much as does the little 

 barb of the sliced hook we invented, though not quite so well. 

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It is rather a difficult thing to get good eyed-hooks at the tackle-makers. 

 They do not seem at all anxious to circulate them among their customers. 



