Quotes by Ed Zern - Page 1

The best time to go fishing is when you can
Ed Zern / Columnist
Angling
Best Times
Fishing
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I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Sports
Hunting
Spectators
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Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Fisherman
Fishing
Honest
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I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Hands
Lakes
Rivers
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...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Fishing
Lakes
Sea
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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 / Columnist
Sports
Lakes
Sea
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The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Lakes
Sea
Sex
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Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Fishing
Lakes
Rivers
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The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells
Ed Zern / Columnist
Lakes
Sea
Wall
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It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Fishing
Lakes
Sea
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... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Men
Lakes
Spiritual
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I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Morning
Fishing
Sea
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Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Cutting
Grateful
Lakes
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People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Sports
Lakes
Sea
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I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.
Ed Zern / Columnist
Believe
Fishing
Sea
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