From the Book "Trout Madness"

Successful fly fishing for trout is an act of high deceit; not only
must the angler lure one of nature's subtlest and wariest creatures, he
must do so with something that is false and no good - an artificial fly.
Thus fake and sham lie at the heart of the enterprise. The amount of
Machiavellian subtlety, guile, and sly deception that ultimately becomes
wrapped up in the person of an experienced trout fisherman is faintly
horrifying to contemplate. Thus fiendishly qualified for a diplomatic
career he instead has time only to fish. So lesser diplomats continue to
grope and bumble and their countries continue to fall into war. The only
hope for it all, I am afraid, is for the Lord to drive the trout
fishermen into diplomacy, or else drive the diplomats to trout fishing.
My guess is that either way we'd be more apt to have peace.: the
fishermen-turned-diplomats would hurriedly resolve their differences on
the trout stream so that they might return to their fishing, while the
diplomats-turned-fishermen would shortly become so absorbed in their new
passion they'd never again find time for war.

Robert Traver aka(John D. Voelker) 1960


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