lo SALMON AND TROUT. 



equally applicable to all the other hook-bends of commerce, 

 several of which are shown in the engraving a page or two on. 

 Some or all of these will, I hope, be obtainable at the tackle 

 shops before this volume is issued. To prevent fraud and 

 to ensure the bona fides of the hooks sold as mine — many 

 spurious and defective imitations of my earlier hook having, I 

 am sorry to say, been made by unauthorised firms — I have also 

 obtained a * trade-mark,' and arranged that every packet of the 

 hooks shall bear such trade-mark with my signature, and so 

 affixed to each packet that it cannot be opened without the 

 label being torn or destroyed. 



Of the foregoing hooks all the larger sizes, intended 

 primarily for salmon and grilse flies, from No. 8 upwards, 

 ' New ' scale (No. 7 upwards, ' Old ' scale), are made with the 

 wire of the loop or eye ' re turned ' up the shank, as already 

 explained. Sizes 8 to 10 'new' scale (7 to 5 'old' scale), 

 inclusive, are made both with and without the re-turned eyes, 

 so as to suit either light or heavy fishing ; and from No. 8 ' new' 

 scale (No. 7 ' old ' scale), inclusive, and upwards, the hooks are 

 made double as well as single. 



Eventually, no doubt, all the smaller sizes will be manu- 

 factured both single and double, as the increase in the use of 

 small double hooks for many descriptions of flies, including 

 ordinary trout flies, where no one would formerly have thought 

 of using them, is another comparatively recent advance in the 

 science of fish-hooks. I have no doubt whatever that, 

 especially for the smaller sizes of salmon hooks, the double 

 pattern has considerable advantages, and I hear that on some 

 rivers, the Tweed, for example, they are completely driving the 

 single hooks ofl" the water. It is obvious, indeed, that they 

 greatly increase the chance both of hooking and of holding 

 a fish ; and against the small additional weight, which may be a 

 slight inconvenience, perhaps, in casting, is to be set the fact 

 that the extra weight has the effect of making the fly swim 

 somewhat deeper, which in salmon-fishing is a generally desir- 

 able result 



