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    Knots and Nets - The Various Types, How to Make them and Practical Uses for them
    Knots and Nets - The Various Types, How to Make them and Practical Uses for them
    Knots and Nets - The Various Types, How to Make them and Practical Uses for them
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    Knots and Nets - The Various Types, How to Make them and Practical Uses for them

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    This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to knots and netting, including information on the various types, how to make them, and practical uses for them. Complete with detailed, step-by-step instructions and many helpful illustrations, this volume is ideal for anyone with a practical interest in netting, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: “Knots”, “Basic Knots”, “Turk’s Head Knots”, “Stopper Knots”, “Knots – Cur, Hair and Gimp”, “Knotting and Splicing”, “Knots and Emergency Repairs”, “Nets, and How to Use Them”, “Tools and Materials”, “Calculating Sizes of Nets and Meshes”, etcetera. This antiquarian volume is being republished now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on rope, knots, and nets.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473391055
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      Knots and Nets - The Various Types, How to Make them and Practical Uses for them - Read Books Ltd.

      Woollard

      KNOTS

      IT is essential that the novice should, before commencing operations on the river, make himself familiar with, at least, two or three simple knots useful in joining gut, attaching—if he be wet-fly fishing—his droppers to the cast, and attaching his cast to the reel line. And here it should be noted that the material he is dealing with, whether gut, gut substitute, or hair, should be thoroughly soaked in water before it is tied. Otherwise it will break when the knot is tightened. These materials are brittle when dry, pliable when saturated.

      The tyro may shrink with dismay from the sight of some of the diagrams of complicated knots, occasionally recommended, that seem to combine all the windings and wiggles of the Gordian Knot and the Cretan Labyrinth. But let him take heart. There is no call for a scare. He may worry along very comfortably for years, perhaps for the whole of his angling career, with one knot, variously applied, and that knot the simplest of all—the knot the lady ties on the corner of her handkerchief as a safeguard against forgetting something.

      Immured in a loathsome cell in the villainous prison at Marseilles, Mr John Baptist Cavalletto, with the assistance of a powerful imagination, gave the piquancy of variety to his monotonous chunk of coarse dry bread by cutting it so, like a melon. Or so, like an omelette. Or so, like a fried fish. Or so, like Lyons sausage.

      In somewhat similar fashion the angler treats the simple knot—which is known as the overhand, or thumb, knot—so, with an extra turn before he threads the end through the loop, and he has a double overhand knot. Or so, and he has joined two lengths of gut together. Or so, and he has made a loop at the end of his cast. Or so, and he has a still better loop. Or so, and he has a Turle knot. Or so, and he has a fisherman’s knot. Or so, and he has a half-hitch jam knot. Or so, and he has a barrel knot. In fact, there are very few knots known to the angler of which the overhand is not the fundamental principle.

      OVERHAND, OR THUMB KNOT

      Until our own times the means most commonly employed for joining two lengths of gut was the fisherman’s knot. It is still very largely used, and for hair casts there is none better. On the end of one strand make an overhand knot, and, before drawing tight, pass through the loop formed the end of the other strand, on which make another overhand knot round the first strand. Then draw each knot reasonably tight and pull the two free ends in opposite directions, when the two knots will slide along until they jam against one another. This is a fairly reliable knot, and has the great advantage of providing the readiest method of changing a dropper when desired with the minimum of trouble. In making the knots the ends of gut or hair should not be cut off close after being drawn tight, but should be left to protrude an eighth of an inch. By taking hold of these ends and pulling, the two sections of the knot may be drawn apart and the knotted end of the gut or hair of the dropper inserted as shown in the illustration, when all is drawn tight again. In this way droppers may be attached at any joining in the cast. The majority of trout fishers do not make up their casts, but buy them ready made. In these the knots, professionally tied, and to be described later, do not admit of being drawn apart, and in such cases the knot may be cut out where it is wished to insert a dropper and the fisherman’s knot substituted.

      Another very easy way of joining gut strands is to use the double overhand knot. Lay the two strands parallel with a couple of inches or so overlapping; then, treating the overlap as a single strand, commence to make an overhand knot on it, but make an extra turn, as shown in the illustration, before putting the combined ends through the loop and pulling tight. This ensures a thoroughly reliable join, but it is rather bulky. It is one of the knots recommended for gut substitute.

      DOUBLE OVERHAND KNOT

      A neater join is effected by a slight elaboration of the fisherman’s knot, and this is sometimes called the barrel knot. It is in reality a double fisherman’s knot, with a double turn taken over both strands before the end is slipped through the loop and drawn tight. This can be used in the same way as the fisherman’s knot for the quick changing of knotted droppers. It is a safer knot than the single fisherman’s when the two strands of gut to be joined vary considerably in thickness. It is also a good join for gut substitute.

      BARREL KNOT

      Now, while the foregoing methods of joining gut will serve, and serve well, the safest and strongest knot of all for this purpose is the blood knot. I do not know who gave it that name, or why. Previous to 1910 the knot was known to a few anglers who were lucky enough to get hold of a cast in which it was incorporated, but the method of tying it, zealously guarded by the one or two in the secret, long and successfully defied detection. The leading tackle dealers could not produce it, and it remained a mystery until A. H. Chaytor, after much research and experiment, published the solution to the world in his Letters to a Salmon Fisher’s Sons.

      BLOOD KNOT

      I cannot do better than quote Chaytor’s own description, which the reader will easily follow with the aid of the illustration.

      "(1) Lay the ends of the two strands of gut side by side as you wish to tie them and about one-eighth of an inch apart, holding them with your left hand, the end of the left-hand strand being nearer to your body.

      "(2) With your right hand take the nearer end and wind it three times round the other strand (winding over and away from you).

      "(3) Then bend the end back and poke it down between the two strands where your left thumb was.

      "This is half the knot done: the other half consists in doing exactly the same thing with the opposite half of the knot.

      "(4) Shift the half knot as it stands into your right hand.

      "(5) Take the loose end and bring it over the strand towards you and so wind three times round the link of the gut.

      "(6) Then bend it back and poke it upwards between the two links so as to lie beside the other loose end, but pointing the opposite way.

      Then, to pull the knot tight, slightly moisten the left finger and thumb, and with them hold the knot lightly whilst you pull the ends firmly and sharply. The knot will run up into a complete and translucent roll with the two ends sticking out at right angles, and they can then be cut off short.

      Thanks to Chaytor and his classic work, the blood knot is now generally used by the professional tiers. The illustration shows, A, the principle of the knot, and, B, its appearance when completed.

      Having proceeded thus far in preparing the cast, the next thing to be considered is the method to be adopted for attaching it to the reel line, and a start is made by tying the end into a loop. This is most easily effected by doubling the end of the cast and tying the twofold gut in an overhand knot at the spot where the base of the loop is to be. This is quite a good loop, but it leaves the loop forming an obtuse angle with the rest of the cast. I do not know that this materially affects one’s casting, but it certainly gives the thing a cock-eyed look which can scarcely be described as æsthetic.

      SIMPLEST METHOD OF LOOPING GUT CAST

      A more symmetrical effect can be achieved by making a simple overhand knot about two and a half inches from the end of the cast, bending back the end of the cast and bringing it through the bight of the knot before the latter is drawn tight, and making another simple overhand knot with the end of the gut round the main length of the cast. Pull all tight, sliding the last-made knot up to the other as you do so, and you have an attachment free from any bad alignment.

      BETTER WAY OF LOOPING GUT CAST

      Next, having formed our loop on the cast, we have got to attach it to the reel line, and this can be done in a very simple manner. Make an overhand knot at the end of the reel line, then thread this under the loop of the cast, over one strand of the loop, under both strands, over the other strand, under the reel line, and over the strand of the loop first crossed. Pull tight, and as you do so cajole the reel line so that the knot at the end of it lies snug against the loop. This is a thoroughly reliable fastening—so reliable that thousands of anglers have used none other. But the objection is raised that, in wet-fly fishing, the knot on the reel line causes a slight disturbance when drawn through the water.

      SIMPLEST ATTACHMENT OF LINE TO CAST

      Any risk of this may be avoided by substituting the figure-of-eight knot, which requires no knot on the reel line, and leaves the short waste end lying snugly alongside the loop. The accompanying sketch gives a better idea of the ins and outs of this knot than words of mine can convey.

      FIGURE-OF-EIGHT ATTACHMENT OF LINE TO CAST

      There now remains the question of tying an eyed hook, whether a dry fly be busked thereon or not, to gut, and for the simplest, yet efficient, method of so doing generations of dry-fly fishers have risen up and called its inventor, Major Turle, blessed. In

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