Boat Quote by Arnold Gingrich

Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch…

— Clare Vanderpool

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it…

— Paul Schullery

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching…

— John Gierach

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

— John Gierach

All fish are not caught with flies

— John Lyly

The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

— Jimmy Moore

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

— Kevin VanDam

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

— George Herbert

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

— Patrick F. McManus

Fishermen can be very superstitious and sometimes you do find yourself thinking, this fish has got a curse on it, it's just not going…

— Jeremy Wade

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns,…

— Stephen Batchelor

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

— Norman Maclean