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thoroughly ‘ship-shape’ knot for a salmon fly, inasmuch as the 
latter when thus attached invariably hangs—and therefore, ot 
course swims—out of the horizontal: in other words, head 
downwards. If, on the contrary, the gut is passed through the 
loop from above and the turn taken over the loop, an opposite 
GUT-LOOPED FLY ATTACHED BY DOUBLE SLIP KNOT. 
(Facsimile of Knot.) 
but equally inelegant effect is produced ; the fly ‘cocks up,’ 
and might swim in almost any position conceivable, except the 
horizontal. There are several variations of this fastening ; but 
I cannot say that I ever met with one entirely satisfactory for 
salmon flies. The best knot for gut-looped flies, or for plain 
hooks with gut loops, twisted or single, is, ‘far and away,’ that 
already recommended,—the slip knot. 
The ‘Pennell-Limerick bend hooks,’ before figured, p. 11, 
are also made p/aiz (as shown over leaf) for the convenience 
of those who may still prefer the old ‘lapping-on ’ system. 
The bend of all these hooks, which is a variation of exist- 
ing recognised bends, is one that I think will commend itself 
-to the practised eye without much argument. ‘The bend has 
been designed to combine in a mechanical form the three 
great requisites of penetration, holding power, and ‘ flotation.’ 
The last-named, which sounds rather Irish, is a question of the 
general contour of the shank. It will be seen in the diagrams 
