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Chris -- 2025-05-10
The BBC, who ought to know better, had this in a quiz-show graphic. And it is a type of fishing that is often done along water courses like rivers and canals and so makes some sense.
There are any number of hits for it from people who, like the BBC, might be expected to get it rightThese are managed by the Fen Fly Fishing Club and comprise of a Trout Fishing Lake and a Course Fishing Lake
It’s a neat bit of linguistic snobbery that places proletarian coarse fishing with a float and hook below fly- and game-fishing. I see that it is British English, which comes as no surprise!
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Of course, a lake is, in the normal course of things, exactly where the water will not be coursing around. Nice one. (Wish you guys could see where I’m writing this from about 2200 m up in the Mexico mountains with a fabulous view of the Pico de Orizaba.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2021-10-17 08:30:30)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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