30 SALMON AND TROUT. 



extracts from the published opinions of practical fly-fishers 

 who have tested and adopted my turn-down eyed hook system 

 for trout flies : — 



MR. choi,:mondeley-pennell's turn-down eyed 



TROUT HOOKS. 



' Having,' the writer states, ' made a thorough trial of flies 

 dressed on these hooks, against flies dressed on ordinary hooks 

 with gut lappings,' he thus sums up : — 



' The result of the week's fishing, during which my worst day was four 

 brace, and my best nine brace, is, on every point, favourable to the flies tied 

 on to turn-down eyed hooks. I may summarise these points as follows : 



' I. The flies never " flick" off. 



' 2. They can be changed — attached and detached— in less than half the 

 time. 



'3. They are stronger; because whenever the gut gets at all frayed at the 

 head it can be at once shifted (re-knotted on), whereas with flies lapped on gut 

 the weakening at the head commences very soon, and any change involves 

 sacrificing the fly; consequently tlie fly is, in many cases, used long after it 

 has become weak. But beyond this there is, I think, an actual extra strength 

 imparted by the form of knotting to the eyed-hooks (Mr. Pennell's 'jam knot') 

 as compared with the ordinary lapping. 



'4. T he turn-down eyed hooks appear to me to hook more fish in pro- 

 portion to rises, and to lose fewer fish after being hooked. 



' I have never met with an instance of the knot slipping.' 



Another fly-nsher writes : — 



' The "jam knot " is the simplest and probably the strongest fastening for 

 trout and grayling flies ever invented ; whilst at the same time — owing to the 

 hook-eye having only to be large enough to pass the gut once through it— it is 

 also the smallest and the neatest. 



' The combinatio)i of Mr. C/iolmondeley-Pennell' s turn-down eyed hooks with 

 the "jam knot" produces an absolutely perfect attachment, and finally solves 

 the great eyed-hook problem. ' 



' The greatest boon to trout-fishers since the invention of the artificial fly." 

 And again : — 



' Sir, — Allow me to add my testimony to that of Mr. Asbridge Hall as to 

 the excellence of Mr. Cholmondeley-Pennell's turn-down eyed hook system 

 with the jam knot. I have been using nothing else constantly for the last 

 month, and cannot say too much in their, and its, praise. The ease and sim- 

 plicity with which the flies are attached, even in the most boisterous weather, 

 the saving of both time and trouble by the quickness of the jam knot, and the 

 escaping of all need of soaking and tying on flies, really leave nothing to be 

 desired ; and though I must admit I started with modest expectations of success, 



