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!

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

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

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

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 .