John Gierach Quotes

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• Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.
• The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes…
• I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without…
• I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think…
• Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.
• The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
• Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on…
• Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.
• If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.
• They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your…
• Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.
• Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in…
• If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on…
• Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.
• I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight…
• I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.
• Luckily, though, there are still a few guys around who will look you straight in the eye and say, eloquently and to the point, ‘It’s…
• 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 fish…

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