fly-fisher

• “He flourished it about and flung it forth as a fly-fisher flings his line.”

  Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells

• “An ardent bird watcher, devoted nature conservationist and fly-fisher, Paulson has an image that is quite apart from that of a typical Wall Street honcho.”

  Forbes: Greener Pastures For Paulson

• “Here he amused himself with angling in the Wandle, having been a good fly-fisher in former days, and learning now to practise with his left hand what he could no longer pursue as a solitary diversion.”

  The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

• “It was an understood thing for years that there was no sport for the fly-fisher with the trout at Wakatipu, but that theory has died out, for the very simple reason that the facts have altered.”

  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

• “Of the two races _Salmo trutta_ alone is of much use to the fly-fisher.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

• “_ -- The only other member of the salmon family in England which gives much sport to the fly-fisher is the grayling, a fish which possesses the recommendation of rising well in winter.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

• “_Hal_ -- Whilst you are preparing I will mention a circumstance which every accomplished fly-fisher ought to know.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828

• “A distinctive suit for fishing is money well spent; and the fly-fisher especially requires something more than the commonplace cut of jacket.”

  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler

• “I have known a fly-fisher wretched for a whole day because he had not brought the bit of indiarubber with which he was in the habit of straightening out his cast; and a roach-fisher refuse to be comforted because his plummet was not.”

  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler

• “As regards the Query touching the possibility of my memory being treacherous respecting the colour of the bird, after a lapse of twenty-five years, more faith will be placed therein on my stating that I am an old fly-fisher, making my own flies: and that no strange bird ever came to hand without undergoing a searching scrutiny as to colour and texture of the feathers, with the view of converting it to fishing purposes.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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