John Gierach Quotes About Boat

Quotes about: Boat

• 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

• The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

  John Gierach

  Mistake, Lakes, Sea

  "Fly-fishing the High Country". Book by John Gierach, 1984.

• It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

  John Gierach

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2011). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

• Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

• We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

• Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (1989). “Fly Fishing Small Streams”, p.31, Stackpole Books

• From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.

  John Gierach

  Fun, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get an idea on how to do something differently, but try to save it to try out later rather than break my comfortable rhythm. I don't worry about forgetting it. In my experience good ideas stay with you, while bad ones go back to where they came from, and good riddance.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

• Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

• Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

  John Gierach

  Successful, Persistence, Lakes

  John Gierach (2010). “Even Brook Trout Get The Blues”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

• Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

• Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think

  John Gierach

  Crazy, Thinking, Sea

• Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

  John Gierach

  Beautiful, Sports, Sea

• Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

• The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.13, Graphic Arts Books

• I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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