in flogging of the waters.
It's a wick man that can catch em

Wick means clever/cunning/resourceful

As in the saying Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in t' back and wick in t' head.

Water rhymes with natter.

the 'flogging' surely refers to the action of a fly fisherman casting his floating line.

I sing a version of the Pear tree but I don't sing 'coit' even though I grew up in Barnsley, because it was his trousers he left behind.

Anne