Sinopsis

Piscator. Oh, sir! doubt not but that Angling is an art. Is it not an art to
deceive a Trout with an artificial fly?—a Trout that is more sharp-sighted
than any Hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than
your high-mettled Merlin is bold. And yet I doubt not to catch a brace or
two to-morrow for a friend's breakfast."—The Complete Angler.
John Hardy had lived with his mother at Hardy Place. His father had died
when he was six years of age, and there was consequently a long minority
of fifteen years. The greatest influence in John Hardy's life was a trout
stream that ran winding through an English landscape for four miles in the
Hardys' property. John Hardy fished it ...