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> [Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/anglers-exaggerate-grossly-and-make-gentle-and-inoffensive-creatures/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

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## More by Roderick Haig-Brown

> [A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/a-man-should-think-when-he-fishing-of-all-manner-and-shape-of-things/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/a-river-is-water-is-its-loveliest-form-rivers-have-life-and-sound-and/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/a-fisherman-is-always-hopeful-nearly-always-more-hopeful-than-he-has/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/wherever-we-go-in-the-world-we-find-other-men-speaking-the-same/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/our-tradition-is-that-of-the-first-man-who-sneaked-away-to-the-creek/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/there-will-be-days-when-the-fishing-is-better-than-one-s-most/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/i-have-two-hopes-for-the-future-the-first-and-lesser-one-is-that-game/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/i-still-don-t-know-why-i-fish-or-why-other-men-fish-except-that-we/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/i-have-been-all-my-life-what-is-known-as-a-conservationist-it-seems/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/i-have-never-seen-a-river-that-i-could-not-love-moving-water-has-a/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/anglers-exaggerate-grossly-and-make-gentle-and-inoffensive-creatures/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/i-remember-the-good-evenings-i-have-fished-even-the-ones-that/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/perhaps-fishing-is-for-me-only-an-excuse-to-be-near-rivers/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/i-have-fished-through-fishless-days-that-i-remember-happily-without/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

> [It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-haig-brown/it-is-quite-easy-to-debase-the-sport-change-its-values-dilute-its/)

[Roderick Haig-Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-haig-brown/)

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