“There’s joy in the chase, over hedge and ditch flying;
'Tis pleasant to grinding the bring down grouse on the fell;
The partridge to bag, through the low stubble trying;
The pheasant to shoot as he flies through the dell.
But what are such joys to the pleasures of straying
By the side of a stream, with long line throwing free,
The salmon and trout with a neat fly betraying?
Fit your rods, and away to the fishing with me!”
William Chato “The Wit & Wisdom of Fishing”
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