Excerpt from Some Piscatorial Problems Idly Considered
We have at least no right to assume that they could not have dressed the most minute of loch flies with a perfection of finish that Mr. Halford himself might have envied, if they had so wished. Diagrams of the patterns of river flies used by them forbid the assumption. Why, then, were they content with rougher, larger, and, as we would consider them, coarser flies to fish the lochs?
The truth, I think, is to be found in the contrast between the older and newer habits of anglers themselves. Fifty years ago the holiday habit was not so firmly established as it is to-day, and I fancy that there were but few anglers in those earlier times who ever thought of going off on a three weeks' or a month's angling holiday.
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