CHAPTER XI. 



CONCLUSION. 

 THE LITERATURE OF FLY FISHING. 



And now we are arived at the last. 

 In wished harhour where we meane to rest ; 

 And make an end of this our journey past ; 

 Here then in quiet roade I think it best 

 We strike our sailes and stedfast Anchor cast 

 For now the Sunne low setteth in the West. 

 Secrets of Angling, 



John Dennys. 1613. 



[0 sport has a finer literature than 

 fishing, and no part of that 

 literature is finer than that 

 devoted to the fly. From the 

 earliest times fishing has never 

 lacked writers who can express 

 themselves; and fly fishing especially has: 

 frequently had much more, for authors of 

 outstanding repute have written about it, both 

 in prose and verse. Something has been said 

 of these famous ones in previous chapters, and 

 indeed their writings are generally known. 

 Apart from Walton, who is knOwn by name at 



