Fly Fishing Quotes: top 41 famous quotes about Fly Fishing

Fly Fishing Quotes & Sayings

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O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. — John D. Voelker

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. — Arnold Gingrich

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. — Tom Brokaw

Dragos, I'm beginning to feel like we're travel cursed. Something always happens when we go away. — Thea Harrison

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. — Sacha Guitry

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. — Ed Zern

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing — Norman Maclean

It is not fly fishing if you are not looking for answers to questions. — Norman Maclean

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. — John Gierach

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot. — Lefty Kreh

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

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. — G. E. M. Skues

Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers," Gunnar said. "It is the contemplative man's recreation. — Clare Vanderpool

I was just wondering how long we were going to pretend like we annoyed each other before we started sleeping together. — Beck Anderson

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. — David Bowie

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. — John D. Voelker

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning. — Theodore Gordon

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen ... — Ed Zern

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat. — Justin Cronin

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch. — Patrick F. McManus

Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall McLuhan

Fly-fishing is really addictive. — Laura Donnelly

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. — John Gierach

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball. — Lance Berkman

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge. — Geezer Butler

Spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout. — Tom Sutcliffe

Everyday is a new opportunity. — Terry McAuliffe

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me. — Amy Ryan

Whether it's fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream. — Jean Chatzky

You must feel comfortable with that fly rod in your hand before you spend time, money, and emotional capital on a fishing trip. — The Orvis Company

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date. — Izaak Walton

The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing. — Jimmy Moore

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity. — Philipp Melanchthon

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Promptly peerless, hitherto peerless and hence peerless. — Bret Hart

To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take. — Roderick Haig-Brown

Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics. — Ice-T

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen