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fly leader will be governed largely by the sizes 

 of flies that you are to fish with; Refina gut 

 usually is fine enough for the terminal lengths. 



For fastening 

 A the strands to- 

 gether the sin- 

 gle fisherman's- 

 knot is simple 

 and neat. The 

 detail is shown 

 in Fig. 21. The 

 ends passed 



twice around the main strands make the double 

 fisherman's-knot. After both knots have been 

 pulled tight, pull them up close against each 

 other and cut off the surplus ends. These ends 

 may be cut closer with safety if first turned in 



by an addi- 

 tional hitch, 

 . as seen in 

 : Fig. 22. It 

 will readily 

 be under- 

 stood that if 

 one of these 

 turned-in or 



Figures 21 and 22. Single fisherman's-knot 



turned-back ends is left sufficiently long it may 

 serve as the snell for a dropper -fly. This is 

 the "snell stunt" that we referred to in a pre- 

 vious paragraph. Another and a very easy 



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