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places, the liook ought to be whipped to triple gut 

 or a link of nine horse-hairs. In long slacks or weils 

 clear of rocks, where the "banks afford the angler a 

 quarter of a mile's clear run, single salmon gut, or 

 a link of six hairs, may suffice. We have heard of 

 salmon-fishers using only three hairs; and that 

 small fish, from four to seven pounds, may be killed 

 with so fine a link, there is no doubt; but should 

 a salmon of fourteen pounds take the fly when the 

 angler is using such an one, he will be very likely 

 to wish that it were tripled. A stouter kind of gut 

 called salmon-gut is used in dressing large hooks for 

 gilse and salmon. As the link is generally fastened 

 or bent, as a whale-fisherman says of the junction 

 of the foreganger, the foot length of his harpoon, and 

 the whale-line to the casting-line by a loop, it is 

 advisable to have it not less than three feet long. 

 A double loop near the hook is always to be 

 avoided, as small air bubbles are apt to collect 

 round it, as well as from its falling heavier on the 

 water. 



Large flies of the most gorgeous colours a pris- 

 matic combination of red, orange, yellow, green, or 

 blue are sometimes dressed, but they are rather for 

 show than use; though salmon will unquestionably 

 take a very gaudy fly when a more quaker-like beauty 

 will not tempt them to rise. It is needless to give 

 directions for dressing such a parti-coloured paragon, 

 as any person who can dress a fly has only to con- 

 sider the rainbow as his type for colour, and he 



