Fly Fishing Quotes - Page 5

• I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

  Arthur Ransome

  Flower, Golf, Men

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• The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

  Jimmy Moore

  Liars, Rivers, Lakes

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• I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

  G. E. M. Skues

  Art, Book, Rivers

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• When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!

  Ed Engle

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.34, Stackpole Books

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• Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

  Izaak Walton

  Learning, Math, Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

  Justin Cronin

  Silly, Lakes, Hair

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.82, Dial Press

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• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Sports, Golf

  "How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Arnold Gingrich (1973). “The Joys of Trout”

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• My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Father, Fishing

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Fishing, Agony

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Golf

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• Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

  John Lee Hancock

  Thinking, Fishing, Montana

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• But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pride, Fishing, Dancing

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• Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

  Paul Schullery

  Jobs, Lakes, Sea

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  Horace Greeley

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Fishing, Grace

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation. Part of that is due to changes in women's attitudes about their own abilities. As more women participate in such things as fly-fishing, whitewater kayaking and bicycling, we're also seeing concurrent growth in those areas in adventure travel.

  Christopher Doyle

  Attitude, Educational, Adventure

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• In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Lakes

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• Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Athlete, Night, Fishing

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• But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sports, Prayer, Father

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• Trout fisherman often give away their presence to the fish by the equipment they are wearing. The yo-yo hanging on the fly fishing vest that attaches to the hemostats or line clippers is often plated with chrome, giving off flashes of light. Some fly boxes that you wear on the chest are also bright aluminum-not a good idea. I recently fished with a fellow who wore a bright yellow hat on a meadow stream in Pennsylvania. From 100 yards away you could see his every movement,-I'm sure that trout near him could, too.

  Lefty Kreh

  Yellow, Lakes, Light

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• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

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