Andrew Lang 
Angling Sketches 

Angling Sketches is a rich and intimate portrait of the delicate, peaceful sport of fly fishing. Excerpt: ‚These papers do not boast of great sport. They are truthful, not like the tales some fishers tell. They should appeal to many sympathies. There is no false modesty in the confidence with which I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some men are born duffers; others, unlike persons of genius, become so by an infinite capacity for not taking pains.‘