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Fishing with a Worm

Bliss Perry

Book Overview: 

Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry includes the poignant and philosophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm. Bliss Perry was a professor of literature at Princeton and Harvard Universities and spent time in Vermont writing and fly fishing.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Taylor Brook trout fighting with it, something is wrong with your worm or with you. For the trout are always there, sheltered by the brushwood that makes this half mile of fishing "not worth while." Below the lower road the Taylor Brook becomes uncertain water. For half a mile it yields only fingerlings, for no explainable reason; then there are two miles of clean fishing through the deep woods, where the branches are so high that you can cast a fly again if you like, and there are long pools, where now and then a heavy fish will rise; then comes a final half mile through the alders, where you must wade, knee to waist deep, before you come to the bridge and the river. Glorious fishing is sometimes to be had here,—especially if you work down the gorge at twilight, casting a white miller until it is too dark to see. But alas, there is a well-worn path along the brook, and often enough there are the very footprints of the "fellow ahead of you," signs as disheartening t. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This book is exactly what the title leads you to expect. It is an essay on the pleasures of simply fishing with a worm. The author contrast this simple pleasure with that of fly fishing. It is a quick read, and a very pleasurable one.

Worm, hook and some stuff that only anglers would appreciate! Highly recommend this book as a road trip read to the kiddos or even as a campfire read

low rating because fishing is not in my culture. it's just another number to my book list