Posted on August 19 2013
Charles Dudley Warner
[Editor's note: From time to time, we like to look back at the literature of fly fishing to see how anglers viewed the sport we love. Here's a fun passage from Charles Dudley Warner, who always wrote with a healthy dose of humor, which perhaps explains his long friendship with Mark Twain.]
Trout fishing. . .would be a more attractive pastime than it is but for the popular notion of its danger. The trout is a retiring and harmless animal, except when he is aroused and forced into a combat; and then his agility, fierceness, and vindictiveness become apparent. No one who has studied the. . .
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