Trout Fishing Quotes

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

  Edward Abbey

  Lakes, Hands, Sea

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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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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• They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Trout, Forget You

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

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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• A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Fishing, Trout

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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• The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

  Theodore Gordon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

  John Buchan

  Fishing, Trout, Fisherman

  John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

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• To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Hate, Inspiration, Men

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

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• I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Fishing, Mainstream Culture

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

  Theodore Gordon

  Sports, Years, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

  Joseph Monninger

  Fishing, Trout, Loses

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Time, Rain

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

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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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• What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

  Nash Buckingham

  Fishing, Trout, Emotion

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• You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

  George Herbert

  Inspiration, Greatness, Cynical

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.317

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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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• I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.

  John D. Voelker

  Fun, Men, Fishing

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• Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Long, Trout

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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