Lee Wulff Quotes

• The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

  Lee Wulff

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

  Lee Wulff

  Fishing, Games, Trout

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.

  Lee Wulff

  May, Release, Fishes

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• Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.

  Lee Wulff

  Smart, Sea, Fishing

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• Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

  Lee Wulff

  Boys, Fishing, Tin Cans

  Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”

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• It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.

  Lee Wulff

  Men, Sea, Fishing

  Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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• Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.

  Lee Wulff

  Lying, Lakes, Sea

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

  Lee Wulff

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Lee Wulff (1952). “New handbook of freshwater fishing”

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• ...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

  Lee Wulff

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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