Boat Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some…

— Charles Dudley Warner

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

— George Herbert

Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea…

— Cornelia Parker

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

— John Gierach

Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as…

— John D. Voelker

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

— Izaak Walton

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

— Corey Ford

It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you…

— Jim Harrison

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you…

— John Gierach

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

— John D. Voelker

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the…

— John D. Voelker

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

— Joseph Monninger