Trout Fishing Quotes

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• 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

  Lakes, Hands, Sea

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• 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

  Fishing, Trout, Problem

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• 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

  Fishing, Trout, Forget You

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• A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Fishing, Trout

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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• The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

  Theodore Gordon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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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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• 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

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

  Joseph Monninger

  Fishing, Trout, Loses

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• 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

  Thinking, Fishing, Mainstream Culture

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Hate, Inspiration, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

  Nash Buckingham

  Fishing, Trout, Emotion

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• It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

  Theodore Gordon

  Sports, Years, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Fishing, Doubt

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

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• Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

  Thomas McGuane

  Fishing, Trout, Consuming

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

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• All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Fishing, Grace

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Father, Fishing

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

  Jack Gartside

  Fishing, Hell, Great Fishing

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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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• If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

  Tom Brokaw

  Fishing, Church, Ifs

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• Never leave fish to find fish.

  Moses

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Father, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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