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line quite as thick as ordinary whip-cord, but this is no 

 argument against the assumption that half a dozen might 

 have been taken by the use of single gut, during the 

 same time that was occupied in inducing this single 

 fish to rise. 



The fly-cast attached to the end of the above should 

 consist of about six or eight feet of the stoutest and sound- 

 est single salmon-gut, the links securely knotted to each 

 other by what is known as the single fisherman's knot. 



Salmon-flies ought to be whipped upon loops of 

 stout gut, only large enough to permit of the extremity 

 of the gut-line being threaded through them ; when 

 their attachment to the latter will not only be almost 

 invisible, but it will be the easiest thing imaginable to 

 change them at pleasure, without the slightest injury 

 either to fly or line, with the exception of opening or 

 cutting off the terminal knot. The method of attaching 

 them is this : Slip the end of the gut-line through the 

 loop of the fly, then cast a single knot at its extremity, 

 and cast a second knot enclosing the gut, when a union 

 is formed which cannot possibly slip, and which is not 

 larger than the head of a pin. A drop-fly may also be 

 fixed four feet above the tail-fly, as in trout-fishing. 



As both salmon and eriox will take parr-tail, min- 

 now, and worm very freely, in proper states of the 

 water for those kinds of fishing, the tackle used must 

 be precisely the same as for trout, with the hooks only 

 a little larger and stronger, and the minnows and worms 

 employed of a full size. 



The Gaff-Hook will be found a very convenient im- 

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