Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason u….

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions….

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books..

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of you….

I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring….

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to c….

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time..

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in….

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth..

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection..

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been..

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too..