10 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 ond 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 off 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. 
