A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the… — Roderick Haig-Brown Boat Copy Share Image
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins… — Roderick Haig-Brown Boat Copy Share Image
A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be. — Roderick Haig-Brown Boat Copy Share Image
Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams.… — Roderick Haig-Brown Bigs Copy Share Image
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown Angling Copy Share Image
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is… — Roderick Haig-Brown Angling Copy Share Image
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough… — Roderick Haig-Brown Available Copy Share Image
I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think… — Roderick Haig-Brown Feels Copy Share Image
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given… — Roderick Haig-Brown Argument Copy Share Image
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace… — Roderick Haig-Brown Association Copy Share Image
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown Anglers Copy Share Image
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to… — Roderick Haig-Brown Boat Copy Share Image
Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers. — Roderick Haig-Brown Angling Copy Share Image
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. — Roderick Haig-Brown Angling Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Add 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 Boat Copy Share Image
