Dame Juliana League
Fly Fishers

Dame Juliana illustration by Judith Padovani

You must not use the aforesaid artful sport for covetousness, merely for the increasing or saving of your money, but mainly for your enjoyment and to procure the health of your body and, more especially, of your soul.

 

Dame Juliana Berners,
A Treatyse of Fyshynge with an Angle, 1496.