Fishing with a Worm
Bliss Perry
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Description
Perry defends the lowly worm in Fishing with a Worm, printed in 1916. Bliss Perry takes his text from Izaak Walton: the last fish I caught was with a worm. His essay is a fond brief for the plain angler. The born fisherman, he says, is a pattern of inconsistency, and a defective logic is his portion.
The sampled pages grant the fly its due with grace. The artificial fly, Perry writes, is the poetry of angling: light as thistle-down, it falls where you will it, and sings like a violin string when the leader tightens. Yet his case is for the worm and for the series of single trout that lurk, each one, under a log or in a ripple. The book is a short, witty essay on the philosophy of fishing, not a manual of knots and baits.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bliss Perry |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |