. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. 406 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. silk is drawn through, and the superfluous wax wiped off by drawing it between the thumb and finger. To Tie on a Hook.—Hold the hook in your left hand between the thumb and forefinger, with the
. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. 406 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. silk is drawn through, and the superfluous wax wiped off by drawing it between the thumb and finger. To Tie on a Hook.—Hold the hook in your left hand between the thumb and forefinger, with the shank uppermost, and the head outward or towards your right, then take two or three turns around the bare shank of the hook near the head, and laying the gut-length on the back of the hook or underneath, wrap down closely until the wrapping covers the end of the gut, which in a short-shanked hook will be oppo- site the point. Figure 1, on the annexed wood-cut, shows. the position of the hook thus far. Then seizing the shank of the hook and reversing it—that is, with the bend outwards— lay the silk along the shank with the end towards the wrist of your left hand, as in figure 2, and forming a loop at the bend of the hook, take the lower part of the slack, and con- tinue the wrapping for three or four turns more, and holding it securely, though not too tightly in its place, draw the slack through and cut it off close, thus making what is by some ano-lers termed the invisible Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler
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