Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. — Arnold Gingrich
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover
One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing — Norman Maclean
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. — John Gierach
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly. — Jack Ohman
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air. — Rex Hunt
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time. — Zane Grey
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. — Norman Maclean
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Izaak Walton
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs
Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. — Paul Schullery
Short Fly Fishing Quotes
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. — Izaak Walton
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. — A. Best
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. — Ovid
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. — Jim Harrison
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas Mcguane
Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further. — Lefty Kreh
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so. — Izaak Walton
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. — Steven Wright
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. — Ovid
Fly Fishing Image Quotes
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
Trout Fishing Quotes
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
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
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
Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.
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
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. — Norman Maclean
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
What good are wings withou the courage to fly.
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. — Alexander Pope
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip. — John Gierach
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. — Theodore Gordon
Fishing Quotes
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. — Idi Amin
Don't make me walk when I want to fly.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author
The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish. — Otto von Bismarck
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau
Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God. — Kabir
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
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. — Tommy Douglas
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. — John Gierach
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One — Said Nursi
No flies enter a closed mouth. — Mexican Proverbs
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. — Roderick Haig-Brown
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't. — John Gierach
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them. — John Gierach
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 — Norman Maclean
If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each. — John Gierach
Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone. — Norman Maclean
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once. — Lee Wulff
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. — Charles W. Waterman
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water. — William G. Tapply
Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife. — John D. Voelker
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. — Dr. Seuss
Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. — John Gierach
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. — Patrick F. McManus
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other." — Horace Greeley
The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't. — Patrick F. McManus
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
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