A Shilling on the Rates (A Creel of Willow - W. H. Canaway)

A Creel of Willow is set on the little river Withy, and encounters characters who fish the water - from Rogers, the time-and-motion man who fishes like a machine, to the wise and kindly Dee who fishes the dry fly because he likes it, and old Percival, who does so because his father told him to. This is a book for fishermen; it is also a book for people who cannot understand fishermen at all.