Famous Quotes | Fly fishing may be a very...

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Attributed in Instructions to Young Sportsmen, Hawker (1859). Never found in Johnson’s works, the remark is also attributed to Jonathan Swift.

Categories: Author, Fishing, Lexicographer

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