HOOKS. 



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In practice the jam knot is produced ' automatically,' and is 

 so perfectly simple, and quick in manipulation that, as I say, I 

 can tie it complete in 15 seconds. The veriest tyro ought to 

 master its principle at the first attempt, and after a few essays 

 tie it by the water-side almost as rapidly as I can myself. 



AUTOMATIC METHOD OF TYING THE JAM KNOT. 



The fly being held in the left hand with the metal eye (a) turned 

 upiuards, 3 or 4 inches of the gut line are pushed through it from 

 below. The fly is then ' let go ' and a slip knot (c) made with the 

 gut-end (b) round the line (d). [This is the point at which the 

 process is seen in the cut.] The slip knot is not drawn quite tight, 

 but left as shown— just open enough to pass comfortably over the 

 metal eye. The fly is now taken again with the left hand, and the 

 line pulled steadily by the right, until — aided when need be by the 

 thumb and finger — the noose of the slip knot passes over the 

 metal eye of the hook, when, on the line being pulled tight, the 

 jam Vxioi forms itself; and the process is completed by cutting off 

 the waste gut-end ' to within ^ or /^ of an inch, according to the 



loosen the jam. Full instructions for using and attaching the turn-down eyed 

 hook for the ordinary' purposes of bait-fishing and all kinds of sea-fishing 

 are given in Vol. II. 



1 Having often experienced great inconvenience from the want of a fine 

 pair of tweezers in manipulating gut-knots, loose hooks, eyed flies and so 



GUT-CUTTERS AND TWEEZERS (| actual size). 

 A, Tweezers, b, Cutters, c, String-hole. 



forth, I thought of combining tweezers with a pair of cutters, answering, so 

 far as gut is concerned, the same purposes as a pair of scissors. From this 



