| Turle knot | |
|---|---|
 The Turle knot as described in 1886 | |
| Names | Turle knot, Major Turle's Knot |
| Category | Hitch |
| Typical use | Fishing |
Aturle knot is aknot used whilefishing for tying ahook orfly to aleader. It is named after MajorWilliam Greer Turle, a 19th-centuryEnglishangler who popularized the knot but did not claim to have invented it. Turle was a contemporary ofFrederic M. Halford and fished thechalkstreams ofHampshire with Halford in the late 19th century and was an early pioneer in the use of eyedhooks for fly fishing.[1] It has sometimes, wrongly, been referred to as the turtle knot.[2]
H. Cholmondeley-Pennell is his 1886 edition ofModern Improvements in Fishing Tackle and Fish Hooks described the Turle Knot thus:
For attachment to a bare hook I have been hitherto in the habit of using a very ingenious knot invented by Major Turle, and known under his name.* Attached to the turn-down eyed hook it answers excellently well, as I can testify from experience, having used nothing else for many weeks in sea and river fishing, when the catch amounted to some thousands of whiting, mackerel, gurnets, flat-fish, &c., and also in legering and float-fishing on the Thames and Norfolk Broads for bream, roach, barbel, chub, perch, and gudgeon.[3]
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