Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

[Charlton]

. Those who mock or dismiss their words miss out on what we all feel about fishing but can't quite get down on paper.[/QUOTE]

some of us try but we try but somehow fail to put it in a very good way as the old sages did

[Mad as a fish]

Fish, oh Fish
So little matters!

Whether the waters rise and cover the earth
Or whether the waters wilt in the hollow places,
All one to you.

Aqueous, subaqueous,
Submerged
And wave-thrilled

As the waters roll
Roll you.
The waters wash,
You wash in oneness
And never emerge.

D. H. Lawrence at his best. So many writers, whom we'd never expect, have vivid insights into angling matters. The obvious ones - Hemingway, Walton, Ransome and Kipling are supplemented by Shakespeare, Yeats, Chekov and Rupert Brooke. Those who mock or dismiss their words miss out on what we all feel about fishing but can't quite get down on paper.

When the Divine light shines from the east you shall be enlightened.

[Stores]

some of us try but we try but somehow fail to put it in a very good way as the old sages did

When the Divine light shines from the east you shall be enlightened.

You know I checked that twice and still got it wrong......which is why I'm still overdrawn at the bank and never to be in the league of the afore mentioned fisher folk.

[Mad as a fish]

Lol