If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

— Tom Brokaw

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

— Norman Maclean

A high church for the true mediocre.

— Norman Mailer

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

— Thomas McGuane

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

— John Gierach

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

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Theodore Gordon

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…

— John Gierach

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

— Zane Grey

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

— Arnold Gingrich

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…

— John Gierach

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you…

— Lee Wulff

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture…

— John Gierach

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

— Izaak Walton

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

— Joseph Monninger