58 FASTENING FOR CASTING-LINE. [PART I. 
I have not much faith, though I have heard of 
their doing good service;—when they do answer, 
I imagine it is only on very warm evenings. 
Let me recommend those, who have been in 
the habit of fastening their casting-line to the 
line by a loop on each, to adopt the much bet- 
ter plan of having merely a knot at the end of 
the line and a loop in the casting-line. They 
are then most easily fastened by 
just passing the knotted line through 
the loop, giving it one turn round 
it, and then bringing it back again 
between the loop and the line as in 
Fig. 7, after which the latter is 
pulled down to the knot. This mode 
of fastening relieves you from the 
nuisance of having to pass all your casting-line 
through the loop, and often saves much trouble 
if you happen to get hung up. It possesses also 
the decided advantage of rendering your line 
lighter to cast with. 
As a mode of fastening bob-flies to the cast- 
ing-line I find the following much the best and 
most serviceable that I have ever tried, combin- 
ing, as it does, the three great essentials of 
strength, lightness, and general convenience. The 
