Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

- Paul Schullery

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

- Paul Schullery

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as…

- Paul Schullery

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matte…

- Paul Schullery

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

- Paul Schullery

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

- Paul Schullery

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

- Paul Schullery

If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent …

- Paul Schullery

If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your though…

- Paul Schullery