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'An alleged humorist once proposed the query ;Are all fishermen
liars, or do only liars go fishing?
This does not seem to me to be funny. It is doubtless true that a cynical
attitude of suspicion and doubt is often exhibited on the recital of a fishing exploit. I believe the joke editors of magazines
and newspapers are responsible for the spread of the propaganda of ridicule, skepticism and distrust of all fish yarns, regardless
of their source. The same fellows have a day of reckoning ahead, for the circulation of that ancient but still overworked
mother-in-law joke..'
Seems like some stereotypes never change!
This is the introduction to this much-overlooked book of Fishing Stories by Henry Abbott, written in 1919. The author goes on to insist, that unlike ‘amateurs, posing as experts’ these stories all come from fellows who ‘are not boastful and never exaggerate’, yet their stories are more fascinating and improbable for their truthfulness!
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