tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005965666877496170.post7561516085039232107..comments2023-04-07T06:42:50.302-05:00Comments on Way Upstream: The Complete Angler - Chapter 1El Pescadorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493288515588564941noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005965666877496170.post-88466426943286463122008-04-09T11:18:00.000-05:002008-04-09T11:18:00.000-05:00The ideas of Walton found their way over to Americ...The ideas of Walton found their way over to America in the 19th century. Below is a quote I took from a San Francisco newspaper in 1873:<BR/><BR/>Fishing teaches perseverance … to succeed as a fisher, wether of kingly salmon or the diminutive gudgeon, an ardor is necessary which is not damped by repeated want of success; and he who is hopeless because he has no sport at first will never fully appreciate fishing. So too, the tyro, who catches the line in a rock, or twists it is an apparently inexplicable manner in a tree, soon finds that steady patience will set him free far sooner than impetuous vigor or truthless strength ... All this exercises a softening influence on his character. Read the works of those who wrote on fishing—Serope; Walton, Davy, as instances. Is there not a very gentle spirit breathing through them?Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684461335251563568noreply@blogger.com