Accuracy Quote by Charles Ritz

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

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

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect,…

— Rex Hunt

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

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

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually…

— Michael Dickinson

There's so many mysteries related to how flies are able to make their way through the world. I'd certainly like to know a lot…

— Michael Dickinson

And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled…

— Ray Bergman

I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles…

— Lefty Kreh

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

— Karl Kraus

The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are…

— Ray Bergman

I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that…

— Jack Ohman