Quotes on Great Fishing

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.