I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

- Arnold Gingrich

Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a…

- Arnold Gingrich

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

- Arnold Gingrich

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

- Arnold Gingrich

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

- Arnold Gingrich

There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the na…

- Arnold Gingrich

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

- Arnold Gingrich

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

- Arnold Gingrich

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

- Arnold Gingrich