HOOKS 



IT may be necessary to say that the hooks 

 mentioned in the foregoing pages are the 

 Kendal ones; numbering from oo to 16 

 the double cypher being the smallest Trout, 

 and No. 16 the largest Salmon hook. A hook 

 exceeding No. 6 is rarely used for Trout flies. 



These hooks, which are excellent in quality 

 and reasonable in price, are made by Mr. Philip 

 Hutchinson, 1 late partner of, and successor to, 

 the famous Adlington, of Kendal ; and I think 

 that they are now made better, and more equal 

 in temper, than I ever remember them to have 

 been. 



Mr. Hutchinson is very obliging in making 

 hooks to order, of any kind which the angler 

 thinks more suitable than the regular sorts for 

 any particular purpose. I had a few hundred 

 bright ones, made by him some years ago, and 

 they answered well for fly-fishing on bright 

 sunny days. Of course the size of hook and 

 fly varies with the water. For instance, if 

 No. 2 is mentioned, an average water is meant. 

 No. 3 would be the same fly for a high, and 

 No. i for a low water. 



[ x Whose successors, Messrs. G. Hutchinson & Co., 

 of 43 Strickland gate, Kendal, worthily sustain the 

 reputation of the house.] 



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