24 SALMON AND TROUT. 
‘FURNACE BROWN,’ DRESSED ON PATENT SNECK-BEND UP TURN SHANK 
EYED HOOK, 
The great thing in dressing all flies on these eyed hooks is 
to leave clear the ‘neck,’ as shown in the diagrams, to receive 
the jam knot. The length of the hook-shank is specially de- 
signed to allow of this. 
ATTACHMENT FOR TURN-DOWN EYED TROUT HOOKS BY THE 
‘JAM KNOT.’ 
The great advantage—if I may venture so to speak of my 
own system—possessed by the turn-down eyed hook ‘over all 
other forms of hooks whatsoever with eyes or loops, is the 
supreme simplicity and rapidity of its attachment to, and dis- 
engagement from the line by means of the Jam Knot. Jn 
Jrom 10 to 15 seconds one fly can be taken off and another 
substituted ; and that with unfailing certainty and malgré what- 
ever the elements may operate to the contrary. 
The engraving below—enlarged for the sake of readier 
illustration—exemplifies the principle of the Jam Knot attach- 
ment before the line is drawn tight—the tightening, of course, 
producing the ‘jam.’ 
PRINCIPLE OF THE JAM KNOT ON A BARE HOOK, MAGNIFIED, 
As this cannot so readily be seen on a fly, it is here repre- 
sented on a bare hook.! 
1 Actually the jam knot is unsuited to a bare hook, as, where there is no 
fly-head to keep it in its place, it is possible for it to slip up the shank and thus 
