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Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons
Book by Chaytor, A. H.
316 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2008
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February 13, 2019
From a chapter entitled Tales of a Great-Grandfather, in which the author quotes his grandfather, from a pamphlet written and published in small number during the 1880's:
In the long run the man who believes in his fly and sticks to it is more likely to do well than one who is perpetually changing. It appears, too, that the capture of fish is not absolutely necessary for the enjoyment of angling as a pastime. I have seen men fishing away very contentedly in water so clear that they might have seen that there was not a fish within yards of them. To beginners, I say fish with your heads, don't be in a hurry, keep up your rod top, and never have any slack line in the water.
An enjoyable series of letters written to his sons instructing them in a lifetime's worth of lessons in all the ways of salmon fishing at the turn of the previous century.
In the long run the man who believes in his fly and sticks to it is more likely to do well than one who is perpetually changing. It appears, too, that the capture of fish is not absolutely necessary for the enjoyment of angling as a pastime. I have seen men fishing away very contentedly in water so clear that they might have seen that there was not a fish within yards of them. To beginners, I say fish with your heads, don't be in a hurry, keep up your rod top, and never have any slack line in the water.
An enjoyable series of letters written to his sons instructing them in a lifetime's worth of lessons in all the ways of salmon fishing at the turn of the previous century.
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