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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float

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

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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
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Immense, of fishy form and mind,
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