Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Attributed in Instructions to Young Sportsmen (1824) by Colonel Peter HawkerSamuel Johnson
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