Fly Fishing Quotes - Page 4

• Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

  Norman Maclean

  Fishing, Perfect, Waiting

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

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• Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

  John D. Voelker

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Home, Optimistic, Fishing

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• 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.

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• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

  Dave Barry

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

  Norman Maclean

  Fishing, Gone, World

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.70, University of Chicago Press

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Fishing

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• All men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

  William Cowper Prime

  Art, Sea, Fishing

  William Cowper Prime (1873). “I Go A-fishing”, p.297

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• The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Trout, Problem

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Flower, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Fishing, Long

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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

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• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

  Norman Maclean

  Summer, Memories, Thinking

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Fishing, Hours

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• Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

  Ed Zern

  Sports, Lakes, Sea

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• Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

  John D. Voelker

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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