Fly Fishing Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiration, Men, Air

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Fishing, People

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

  Brian Francis

  Art Of War, Fishing, Storm

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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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• To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

  John D. Voelker

  Regret, Lakes, Sea

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• He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Sea, Fishing, Dry

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• Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

  Lee Wulff

  Boys, Fishing, Tin Cans

  Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  Patrick Swayze

  Fishing, Curiosity, Sides

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• There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

  Herbert Hoover

  Prayer, Fishing, Two

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the American Road”

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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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• It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

  William Cowper Prime

  Fishing, Doe, Sake

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143

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• I'd rather go fishing for three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Years, Fishing, Three

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• ...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

  John D. Voelker

  Rivers, Lakes, Average

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• Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

  Ed Zern

  Fishing, Honest, Fisherman

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• Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

  Jimmy Cannon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Stars, Winning

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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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

  Sports, Lakes, Sea

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• Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Rocks, Fishing, Trout

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• I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.

  Linda Hamilton

  Thinking, Sea, Fishing

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• And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

  Izaak Walton

  Winter, Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Fishing, Tourists, Insects

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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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