“…fly tying is the next best thing to fishing; it is the sort of licking of the lips that eases a thirsty man in the desert.” – Arthur Ransome The...
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“As with a faint star in the night’s sky, one can better understand fishing’s allure by looking around it, off to the side, not right at it.” – Holly Morris...
“Selectivity is a simple reflex pattern.” – Ernest Schweibert The trout, driven by instinct, will reflexively feed upon the dominant insect of the given season, the food source in which...
“More than half the time, a trout will refuse your fly not because the fly was wrong but because it was not behaving properly.” – Tom Rosenbauer Then there is...
“I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where fish are found, which are invariably beautiful…and, finally not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important...
“I suspect that a sense of humor is the most valuable thing an angler can own.” –Jim Harrison If you are heading to the river this winter, there are several...
"Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe...
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” ― Benjamin Franklin In the new year, may your...
“The whole notion of fly-fishing would not be so romantic if the trout did not win, too.” – Mark Rauschenberger There is more to fly fishing than wins and losses....
“A mark of all the best fisherman I have known has been the power of concentration, and this, perhaps, is the most important single quality a fisherman can have.” –...
“For the maxim holds good in the matter of fishing as in everything else: the first step to be wise is to know that we are ignorant.” – Edward Hamilton...
“No wonder, then, that the fly fisher loves at times to take a day all by himself; for his very loneliness begets a comfortable feeling of independence and leisure, and...
