It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
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. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations.… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly,… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
