Fishing Quotes - Page 33

• The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

  Jimmy Moore

  Liars, Rivers, Lakes

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• I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

  G. E. M. Skues

  Art, Book, Rivers

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• Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sea, Land

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• One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

  John D. Voelker

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• ...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

  Arthur Ransome

  Book, Reading, Rivers

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.309, Penguin

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• I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

  Ed Weeks

  Strong, Sea, Rivers

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• I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lakes, Wind, Sea

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.907, Delphi Classics

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• Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

  Pablo Neruda

  Rivers, Lakes, Hands

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• During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

  John D. Voelker

  Careers, Rivers, Lakes

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• The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Sports, Dream, Sleep

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• An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more

  Kenneth Grahame

  Fashion, Blood, Sea

  Paul Brody, Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work”, p.332, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.

  Jimmy Moore

  Lying, Rivers, Lakes

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• False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

  Joe Brooks

  Mistake, Air, Sea

  Joe Brooks (1985). “Trout Fishing”, Outdoor Life

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• If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

  Ted Trueblood

  Mean, Sea, Two

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• The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things”, p.23, Read Books Ltd

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• I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.

  Joseph Monninger

  Sports, Mean, Makeup

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• A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Heart, Sea, Rivers

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• Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.

  Thaddeus Norris

  Sports, Rivers, Lakes

  Thaddeus Norris (1864). “The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing”, p.29

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• Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  Leigh Hunt (1859). “Works”, p.38

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• Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

  Daniel Lanois

  Daughter, Rain, Rivers

  Song: Fisherman's Daughter, Album: Acadie, 2008

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• It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.

  Lee Wulff

  Men, Sea, Rivers

  Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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• ...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

  Lee Wulff

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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• Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely

  Ray Bergman

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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