During nearly fifty years of angling I have witnessed many titanic battles between fisherman and trout. I can recall one fish I hooked on the Borland River that took fifty-seven minutes to land. Another brown, on the West Coast, assisted by the power of a swollen river, sped off downstream stripping all of the fly line from my reel in a matter of seconds. But it not stop there - not at all - it pushed on and on, taking my backing as well. Eventually there was none of that left either and only a tiny knot linked angler and fish. Remarkably the trout came to rest at that point. After negotiating endless obstacles I gradually retrieved all of the line and eventually netted the fish!

An exerpt from “Stalking and Catching Trout” by Les Hill and Graeme Marshall. Halcyon 2005.

In the real estate cliche, “location, location, location,” the repetition is simply to emphasise a point. In the present context each word has slightly different “meaning.” The first highlights the idea of initially locating areas in rivers (or lakes) where trout probably reside. The second refers to seeking, in those areas, the most promising lies where trout may be found. The third repeat refers to the pinpointing of fish in a lie. Locate the area, locate the lie, locate the fish. The cliche summarises (literally) a system of stalking trout…
Exerpt from “Stalking and Catching Trout” by Les Hill and Graeme Marshall. Halcyon 2005.