Lakes Quotes - Page 11

• And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

  John Buchan

  Fall, Sight, Jewels

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• The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

  John Steinbeck

  Couple, War, Fate

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• For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.

  Charles Ritz

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.

  William G. Tapply

  Memories, Home, Sea

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• It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

  Tom Sutcliffe

  Fishing, Rivers, Sea

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• We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

  Thomas McGuane

  Taken, Marine, Sea

  Thomas McGuane (1999). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, Knopf

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• Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sea, Fishing, Like Love

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• A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

  Corey Ford

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which suddenly sees its approach. As the small fly get nearer, the fish moves forward to strike, but the tiny fly doesn't flee at the sight of the predator. Instead it continues to come directly toward the fish. Suddenly the fish realizes intuitively that something is wrong(its never happened before), so it flees until it can assess the situation. An opportunity for the angler has been lost.

  Lefty Kreh

  Moving, Opportunity, Rivers

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• It is not a good idea, either, to attach material such as Krystal Flash or Flashabou, then trim all strands at one spot. This gives most of the reflectiveness at one location - where the strands were severed. Instead, clip off the strands at different lengths along the entire body - that way you'll see little sparkles of light throughout the pattern

  Lefty Kreh

  Light, Sea, Fishing

  Lefty Kreh (1992). “Advanced Fly Fishing Techniques: Secrets of an Avid Fisherman”, Delacorte Press

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• I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one

  Lefty Kreh

  Rivers, Views, Sea

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

  John Gierach

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get ahaead of him, he'll probably try to beat you, and from then on it will be nothing but a foot-race instead of a contemplative and inspiring recreation.

  Ray Bergman

  Race, Sea, Fishing

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• The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

  Thomas McGuane

  Believe, Sea, Fishing

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.69, Vintage

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• Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.

  John Ashbery

  Morning, Sex, Boys

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.219, Modern Library

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Race, Sea

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• 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

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• ...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

  Ed Zern

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• ... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

  Steve Earle

  Hands, Sea, Fishing

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• If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Sea

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