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no occasion for them being more than three 

 yards long, as we cannot advocate fishing with 

 more than three flies at a time. If three flies 

 are properly placed on a line, and the line be 

 properly handled in the casting, they will cover 

 as much water as any number of flies. Besides, 

 there is far less chance of a " fankle," to use a 

 most expressive Scotch word, than when four 

 or more flies are used. In this, however, 

 chacun a son gotit, we are only giving an 

 opinion after trying both ways. 



In making up a cast of flies, have no loops 

 of any kind, excepting the one by which the 

 cast is attached to your silk-and-hair line. The 

 water-knot is so simple and neat, that it is the 

 best for the purpose of fixing on the tail-fly, 

 which, by the way, should be the heaviest of 

 those you are about to use, if there is any 

 difference between them. In case our readers 

 don't know the water-knot, we give an illus- 

 tration which explains itself 



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The loops are pulled tight, and then the fly 

 and the line are drawn in opposite directions, 

 the result being that the knots formed by the 



