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A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'
One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot
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.
A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.
During fashion week, I dream about fashion; afterwards, I dream about fishing. After fashion week, I always go fishing to wind down.
If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
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
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.