Posted by Jon on October 20, 2003 at 20:39:43 from 151.121.50.1 user Jon.
In Reply to: Re: inspiration for posted by Jon on October 20, 2003 at 20:20:19:
Oh Bother. Serves me right for not test posting first.
Anyway, another location where Ransome would surely have run across the term would have been in Andrew Lang's (The variously coloured Fairy Books)Angling Sketches. Chapter 1 can be found on-line here.