HOOKS. 25 
In practice the jam knot is produced ‘ automatically,’ and is 
so perfectly simple, and quick in manipulation that, as I say, I 
can tie it complete in 15 seconds. The veriest tyro ought to 
master its principle at the first attempt, and after a few essays 
tie it by the water-side almost as rapidly as I can myself. 
AUTOMATIC METHOD OF TYING THE JAM KNOT. 
The fly being held in the left hand w7th the metal eye (A) turned 
upwards, 3 or 4 inches of the gut line are pushed through it from 
below. The fly is then ‘let go’ and a slip knot (C) made with the 
gut-end (B) round the line (D). [This is the point at which the 
process is seen in the cut.] The slip knot is not drawn quite tight, 
but left as shown—just open enough to pass comfortably over the 
metal eye. The fly is now taken again with the left hand, and the 
line pulled steadily by the right, until—aided when need be by the 
thumb and finger—the noose of the slip knot passes over the 
metal eye of the hook, when, on the line being pulled tight, the 
jam knot forms ztself; and the process is completed by cutting off 
the waste gut-end! to within 3 or ;4 of an inch, according to the 
loosen the jam. Full instructions for using and attaching the turn-down eyed 
hook for the ordinary purposes of bait-fishing and all kinds of sea-fishing 
are given in Vol. II. 
1 Having often experienced great inconvenience from the want of a fine 
pair of tweezers in manipulating gut-knots, loose hooks, eyed flies and so 
GUT-CUTTERS AND TWEEZERS (3 actual size). 
a, Tweezers. 3», Cutters. c, String-hole. 
forth, I thought of combining tweezers with a pair of cutters, answering, so 
far as gut is concerned, the same purposes as a pair of scissors. From this 
