One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.
I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods.
I meet a lot of characters in the islands, people who're running -- who're happier on a fishing boat than they are back home. When I first got down there,I don't know if I was running from a real bad heartbreak or running to something I thought would make me feel better. But since I've been spending time in the Caribbean, I've come to realize that I've got nothing to run from.
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
. . . . 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.
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.
Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season.
The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.
. . . next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.
And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.