They were designed by John Betts, who took the philosophy that he did not want to damage the mouths of fish so invented "touch and go", the premise beign to enjoy the brief contact and maybe a run or two before the fish slipped the "hook".
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Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine,
No blood of living insect stain my line;
Let me, less cruel, cast feather'd hook,
With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook,
Silent along the mazy margin stray,
And with fur-wrought fly delude the prey
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