“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....
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“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...
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” ― Jim Bishop While Spring brings the promise of a new season and Summer the transition from green...
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald from The Great Gatsby There is a freshness in the October air that is...
"If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” –George Eliot You are a bird, a migratory bird. You have flown about the earth...
"The craft of angling is the catching of fish, but the art of angling is its receptiveness to these connections, the art of letting one thing lead to another until,...
"Those who fish get to know and understand a river in a way few others can.” – W. D. Wetherell What does it mean to know and understand a river?...
"Success begets confidence and confidence begets success—and that fine upward spiral is the best restorative of streamside sanity.” ~ Howard T. Walden Each presentation is a feedback loop. The drift,...
““One brisk morning spent fishing on a misty lake can bring home to a child the beauty, drama and fragility of our national heritage in a way a thousand classroom...
“Fly fishing is about adaptation—in any role, capacity, or genre.” ~Charles Jardine from the forward to Dynamic Nymphing by George Daniel Nothing about the trout’s environs are ever the same....
