Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal…

- Ray Bergman

And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the b…

- Ray Bergman

In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say…

- Ray Bergman

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get ahaead of him, he'll pro…

- Ray Bergman

My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all ha…

- Ray Bergman

As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow

- Ray Bergman

Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated

- Ray Bergman

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish ea…

- Ray Bergman

The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are very important in tha…

- Ray Bergman