Chapt. xm. Flight of hooks for Mahseer. Ill 



position, loses one of its turns in the yielding gut loops, 

 ceases to haye two turns round the shank of the hook; 

 and, as a consequence slips. For the same reason the 

 fine gimp loops should not be a bit bigger than I have 

 said. Having thus disposed of your lip hook take the 

 snood of salmon gut, or treble gut, on which you are 

 going to tie your treble h.ook, and pass what is to be the 

 treble hook end through the loop at the head; give it two 

 turns round the shank of the lip hook, or, if you like, 

 three turns, but certainly not less than two complete 

 turns, and pass it through the tail loop, and then on to 

 the end tie your one treble hook, after the fashion recom- 

 mended for tying treble hooks in India. Knot the usual 

 loop at the other end of your snood, and your flight of 

 spinning hooks is complete. Your lip hook will of course 

 hang the same way as your treble. 



You will find that when pulled taught, the two turns 

 round the lip hook keep it effectually from slipping when 

 spinning; and even should you chance to hook your fish 

 on that hook instead of the treble, it will still hold with- 

 out slipping. At the same time it is easy enough for 

 you to adjust the length intervening between the lip hook 

 and the treble, by pushing the snood together, so as to 

 slacken the double turn round the lip hook, and you can 

 then work the lip hook either way. The lip hook should 

 thus be adjusted so as to suit the varying size of your 

 bait, by making the intervening space just long enough 

 to bring the treble hook even with the vent, when /the 

 lip hook is in the lip; but care should be taken to do 



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