Sts.,—Therm was an amusing little error in the printing of
my letter in last week's Spectator, doubtless due to my hand- writing. I wrote : " Major Hale has received many suggestions from amateur salmon-fly dressers," not "salmon-fly drivers." It reminded me of a Hampshire fishing story. On an occasion when the late Francis Francis, who was angling editor of the Field for over thirty years, and the late George Selwyn Marryat, that king of fly-fishers, were fishing together on the Test with one or two other anglers, Francis sent to ask Marryat, who as usual was having great sport with the trout, " what fly it was." The chaffing answer he got from his old friend was that—" It was not the fly, but the Driver." As I am writing, may I mention that the first of Major Hale's illustrated articles on salmon-fly dressing appeared in the Fishing Gazette of January 14th P I do not quite know how February 14th was given in my letter last week.—I am, Sir, &c., R. B. MARSTON,
Editor Fishing Gazette.
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