Fly Fishing Poem

[dj1212]

Doug J.,
Fantastic! Can't wait to hear what you will find for us! Lots of reading, lots!
Doug D.

You know I was never a big reader except fly fishing books. lol Some I've read over and over and over.
By the way The British Anglers Manual was dated something like 1848. So even then that verse was pretty old.

As for the research done on that poem was nothing short of amazing. I assume the internet was a big help. Where were we before the www? I thought the little excerpt I found was kind of quaint. But the entire verse is not the same. My opinion. lol

Doug J.

[dj1212]

Having reread the entire verse I do like these last few lines.

"Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine.
No blood of living insect stain my line;
Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook,
With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook,
Silent along the mazy margin stray,
And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey."

Doug J