...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.