When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward. — Joseph Monninger Copy Share Image
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick… — Gordon MacQuarrie Copy Share Image
Trout moved, that's why he survived 12 rounds. If Hurd sat in front of me and took those shots, he'd be done. — Jermell Charlo Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it… — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“The silver trout were so numerous that if every one had turned into a star, the river would have been shining with… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“As a younger man, Trout would have sneered at the sign about brotherhood—posted on the rim of a bomb crater, as anyone… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
“In April, he perched on a witch hazel branch, shivering, one eye closed, waiting for the sun to warm his wings. The… — Brad Kessler Copy Share Image
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The fisherman-painter has the best of the bargain as far as the weather goes, for the weather that is too bright for… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“The Drunken Fisherman" Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye (Truly Jehovah's bow suspends No pots… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout. — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
