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the British 000, is numbered 17; 16 is the next 

 larger size, as the flies grow larger the numbers 

 getting smaller. The corresponding English new 

 sizes for the numbers 10, 12, and 14 flies that we 

 illustrate are numbers 5, 3, and 1 respectively. 

 (Number 14 pictures a dry fly.) In the plate 

 showing the sizes of hooks, numbers 5 and 6 

 the larger of the series of smaller hooks are 

 Limerick bend, while the others are Sneck bend; 

 all of this series are down-eyed, upturned-shank 

 Pennells. 



When it comes to larger hooks, used prin- 

 cipally for salmon flies and for bait-fishing for 

 bass, pickerel, and pike, the sizes and numbers 

 run as indicated in the series of the larger hooks 

 shown. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 picture down- 

 eyed Pennell Limericks; numbers 1/0 to 4/0 

 are Sproat hooks. The number 2 Sproat is a 

 very popular hook for bass. We will reserve 

 discussion of further hook details for the chapter 

 on "The Angler's Flies." 



This reference to the subject of flies calls to 

 mind a specimen of the curious advice some- 

 times thrust upon the novice by those who 

 would pose as experts, writing in the sports- 

 men's magazines. Imagine that most dainty 

 and precise result of the fly-tier's art, a dry fly, 

 so carefully fashioned as to its radiating hackle 

 and upstanding wings, carried pressed flat be- 

 tween 'two layers of oiled felt! The suggestion 

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