The Iron-Blue
~ Plunket Greene's favourite Fly
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Harry Plunket Greene is best remembered
locally and internationally as a passionate fly-fisherman, who wrote delightfully about his
experiences fishing the Bourne Rivulet and River Test in 'Where the Bright
Waters Meet'. Sandy Mitchell says in an article on Plunket Greene, 'Bourne
To Be Wild', in The Field (July 2002):
Harry Plunket Greene
described the River Bourne as ‘unquestionably the finest small trout stream in
England’ — an outrageous claim in that long-gone heyday of fly-fishing, and
he wrote a book that proves his point. It is a simple fishing memoir but as
joyful a masterpiece as any in literature. If you read it you will remember how
it felt when you first fell in love with the sport.
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