" I have as many disappointing days as any of my readers, perhaps more.
I fail continually. I leave flies in the fish's mouth; I am weeded and
broken. Some evenings I get home dead beat, tired out, depressed and
ready to declare that I will give up dry-fly fishing altogether. I hope
however that I have learned to look at sport from the optimistic point
of view, and so the next morning I wake up keener than ever, and once
more sally forth to the river resolved to do or die. "
Frederick M. Halford
"Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice" [1889]
"That Halford was a man of high resolve, and no egomaniac, is shown in
the fact that he quit all business at the age of forty-five to devote
the next twenty-five years of his life to fishing and writing about the
dry fly, and not only to formulate his own theories but at the same time
to play the role of Boswell to Captain Marryat, a great nonwriting
fisherman."
Jimmy D. Moore I FISH BECAUSE I MUST !
But, more importantly, I
fish because
my Dad taught me!
Scout Exec. BSA,(Ret.) - Outdoor Writer, TOWA, GRTU, FFF
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