HOOKS. 13 
Take the hook by the bend between the finger and thumb 
of the left hand, with the eye turned downwards (in the position 
shown in the diagrams ; then—zhe gut being first thoroughly well 
soaked—push the end, with a couple of inches, down through the 
eye, B, towards the point of the hook; then pass it round over the 
shank of the hook, and again, from the opposite side, downwards 
through the eye in a direction away from the hook-point. [The gut 
end and the central link will now be lying parallel.] Make the 
double- (or single-) slip knot, A, round the central link, Cc, and pull 
the said knot itself perfectly tight ; then draw the loop back until 
TURN-DOWN EYED SALMON FLY ATTACHED BY SLIP KNOT. 
the knot, A, presses tightly- into and against the metal eye of 
the hook, B, where hold it firmly with the fore-finger and thumb-nail 
of the left hand, whilst with the right hand—and ‘ humouring’ the 
gut in the process, so as to clear the hackles, &c.—the central link 
is drawn tight, thus taking in the ‘slack’ of the knot. When 
finished, cut the superfluous gut end off nearly close.! 
1 If turn-p eyes should be used, the mode of attachment by a single slip 
knot is shown, unfinished, in the diagram. It is the same knot as that 
described for the turn-down eyed salmon hook, merely passing the loop under 
instead of over the shank, : 
SINGLE SLIP KNOT FOR TURNED-UP EYE HALF FINISHED. 
A, Eye; B, hook-bend ; c, end of gut line; D, main line; &, single slip knot, 
