Lakes Quotes - Page 7

• For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

  Thaddeus Norris

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  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.567

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• After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

  Jimmy Carter

  Boys, Fishing, Rivers

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.74, University of Arkansas Press

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• There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

  Zane Grey

  Rivers, Sea, Fishing

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• The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.

  Walter D. Wetherell

  Hunting, Sea, Fishing

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• Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

  Zane Grey

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press

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• Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think

  John Gierach

  Crazy, Thinking, Sea

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• There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

  John D. Voelker

  Men, Sea, Fishing

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Persistence, Sea

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• As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.

  Jimmy Carter

  Successful, Good Friend, Hands

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• Feed a fish a cat a day

  Tony Bishop

  Cat, Sea, Fishing

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• 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, Sea

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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

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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

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• The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

  John D. Voelker

  Children, Rivers, Sea

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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, Fishing

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• I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

  Billy Connolly

  Rivers, Sea, Fishing

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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, Sea, Fishing

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

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• We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Sea, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden (Diversion Classics)”, p.258, Diversion Books

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• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.91, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Rivers, Hands, Sea

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• The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

  Robert Burns

  Jumping, Sea, Fishing

  Robert Burns (1868). “Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns”, p.98

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• The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sweet, Rivers, Sea

  Leigh Hunt, David Jesson-Dibley (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Psychology Press

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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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• The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

  Robert Burns

  Art, Rivers, Sea

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.

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