A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink. — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series. — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working. — Colonel Sanders Copy Share Image
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family, I love playing dominos and card games and… — Jase Robertson Copy Share Image
“But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I used to go salmon fishing with the late Jim Slater, the renowned investor, and he would give me tips. He told… — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50,… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing. — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
I was fishing with director Frank Capra once and we talked about retirement. — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
