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flies restricted to fishing wet, you can use Sproat 

 hooks; which do not differ much from the Lim- 

 erick pattern but are made of heavier wire. Get 

 any of these in the bronzed finish. 



There is .one style of hook that the writer 



Sproat hooks 



prefers to the down-eyed Limerick, and that is 

 what is known as the Model Perfect hook, and 

 it is made by S. Allcock and Co., in Redditch, 

 England. It has a rounder, wider bend than 

 the Limerick, and this extra space between point 

 and shank allows of a bigger bite and securer 

 _^ . hold; it also has a very 



C /2 ^ ~A l n g slender, sharp 

 point, and the shank is 

 nicely tapered, in the 

 particular pattern we 

 are noting, just before 

 it terminates in a very 

 neat downturned eye. On the whole it is light 

 and very graceful, at the same time strong 

 enough and very effective. A somewhat similar 

 192, 



Model Perfect and Captain 

 Hamilton hooks 



