ON E YED-HOOKS. 



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latter fault is due either to the ignorance or to the 

 carelessness of the workman, and the remedy is a 

 very simple one, viz., to return or refuse to pur- 

 chase any flies so finished. 



The following method of attaching eyed-hooks, 

 the invention of Major Turle, will obviate the 

 former objection raised. The advantages of this 

 method over all others are that the end of the gut 

 is passed only once through the eye ; the knot is a 

 perfectly simple one, and yet quite secure ; and 

 while tying it, the fly, being pushed well up the 

 east, is entirely out of the way of the operator's 

 fingers, and cannot be dropped. 



Pass the end of the gut cast A, previously well 

 soaked, upwards through the eye, and draw the fly 

 well up the cast, so as to be out of the way. Carry 

 the end of the gut 

 round itself to form 

 an open loop 

 shown (fig. 2). 



With the end A 

 make an open turn 

 round the gut and 

 end of the loop 



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Pass the end A 



through the open 

 turn just made 

 (fig- 4). 



as 



Fig. 4. 



Draw the knot thus made nearly tight ; if drawn 



