Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

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.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

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

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 .