Fly Fishing Quotes - Page 2

• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

  Don Marquis

  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Fishing, Trout

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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• The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

  Theodore Gordon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't...that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Swimming, Fishing

  Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.175, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

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• Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.

  Howell Raines

  Beautiful, Moving, Lakes

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• There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

  Lefty Kreh

  Fishing, Kansas, Great Fishing

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• The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Rain, Fishing, Two

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Years, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

  William G. Tapply

  Fishing, Water, Gone

  William G. Tapply (1997). “A Fly-Fishing Life”

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• I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2010). “At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.

  Ray Bergman

  Husband, Lakes, Sea

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• Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.

  Ray Bergman

  Memories, Fishing, Would Be

  Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”

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• Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

  Thomas McGuane

  Fishing, Trout, Consuming

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

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• Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

  Theodore Gordon

  Past, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

  John D. Voelker

  Fishing, Get Away, Best Times

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• All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Mother, Hate

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.116, Penguin

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• Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

  John Wolcot

  Giving, Trout, Sin

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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