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.
Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.
I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.
This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake. ” She smiled. “Lancelot was a knight. You’re a viscount. The bar is higher.
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
A man. . . needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air. . . . The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before. . . . The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.
