On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments. — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you. — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. — G. E. M. Skues Copy Share Image
Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . . — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end,… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us… — Patrick Young Copy Share Image
I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Saltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's like sex after lunch. — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a… — Vance Bourjaily Copy Share Image
The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans,… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. — Horace Copy Share Image
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg. — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
