fly-bait

Updated: May 3, 2025

Or, out of the bright waters, boys and men in the sunshine drew out the fish with shining scales, or lured the trout, with fly-bait, from their hiding places. In those days the fish-pond was called the Vijver, and the woods where the deer ran, Rensselaer, or the Deer's Lair.

William Elliot Griffis - Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks