110 Hooks 9 Gut, fyc. 



Sneckbend I consider upon a par; but neither are so good 

 as the Round or Kendal, or the Limerick or Irish. Be 

 particular in never using very small fly-hooks when 

 larger will serve your purpose, because they hold better 

 when you have hooked your fish, and are more certain. 



Some Kendal hooks have too little barb and too much 

 point. 



Some Sneckbends are set too much to the right or 

 left, and this tends, at times, only to scratch the fish 

 instead of hooking him. The straight Kirby hooks ap- 

 proach very nearly to what is required in shape ; but 

 I cannot say so much either for their pointing or tem- 

 pering. The straight Limerick or Irish hooks I have 

 found none to surpass, either in point or temper. I do 

 not refer to the old Limerick, with the very projecting 

 barb, but to the modern-fashioned ones. I am using 

 some of Hatchet's FE of Cork, which, for point, temper, 

 and fineness of wire, I have never seen surpassed. 



Doubtless many prejudiced Anglers, who may be skil- 

 ful in the art, may not agree with the above remarks, 

 each holding to his fancy ; but it is hoped that beginners 

 will profit by adopting them, in preference to partialities 

 which habit, with nothing more to recommend them, 

 may have rendered familiar. 



Adlington's and Hutchinson's Round-bent hooks are 

 assorted from 00, the smallest, up to 20, the largest salmon 

 size. Philip's Dublin are assorted, the trouting ones, by 

 letters, thus FE the smallest trouting fly,F the next, then 

 FF, next FFF, then c, and cc ; B, and BB, &c. from B up- 

 wards, have their half-sizes : BB, the largest of the lettered 

 description, being often used as a grilse-hook, is admitted 

 amongst those which rank by number, and stands at the 

 foot of the salmon sizes as No. 9. Above it follow 8, 7, 

 6, 5, and 4, the last the largest salmon size; and all 

 the numbers have their half or intervening sizes. 



