[VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY

[Jimmy D. Moore]

"Well over a century ago, the classic British chalk streams were fished 
with live insects on gossamer silk, wind-carried "blow lines". So, the 
trees were cut back from the riverbank a hundred feet or more to give 
the wind full, even sweep. Today, the typical chalk stream bank has only 
a low occasional bush behind which the angler must kneel for cover; 
hence the kneepad. And since the angler may have to wait hours for a 
rise to develop, and no tree handy against which to lean his rod, the 
removable or collapsible butt- spear enables him to stand his rod 
upright and safe on the turf. It is not intended, as some light-minded 
American types insist, to repel the charge of an infuriated trout."

A note by Sparse Grey Hackle in "Great Fishing Catalogs of the Golden 
Age" (1972)







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