It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably refle… - Roderick Haig-Brown
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably refle…
- Roderick Haig-Brown
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have… - Roderick Haig-Brown
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have…
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through whic… - Roderick Haig-Brown
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through whic…
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. - Roderick Haig-Brown
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and mo… - Roderick Haig-Brown
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and mo…
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying ho… - Roderick Haig-Brown
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying ho…
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousa… - Roderick Haig-Brown
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousa…
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. - Roderick Haig-Brown
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks - Roderick Haig-Brown
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks
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