Concerning Flies 203 



it an easy thing to know, with absolute 

 certainty, what is wanted, so that the 

 fishing-tackle maker can proceed with the 

 order, perfectly certain that the right size 

 of hook will eventually reach their distant 

 customer ? I say that it is not. 



Take, per example, the scale of two 

 well-known old firms Messrs. Hutchinson 

 & Sons' Limerick - bend hooks, and then 

 take Messrs. Bartleet & Son's Limerick- 

 bend hooks. 



Observe that No. 1 of Messrs. Hut- 

 chinson & Sons' "make" is the smallest 

 trout-fly on their advertised scale of sizes, 

 whereas the same number in Bartleet & 

 Son's scale of sizes, is a salmon hook, which 

 measures 1 inches in length. 



With such a state of affairs staring us 

 in the face, the possibility of serious error 

 at any moment, is only too obvious. 



Again, and yet again, I say that the 

 world is too progressive to permit such 

 a stupid state of things to remain for 

 ever. 



Surely I shall have every one with me, 

 when I point out that few things in an 

 angler's pleasant and placid life are more 

 aggravating than when, on an angling 

 holiday, an urgent letter or "wire" to a 



