Connected Quote by Jack Handey

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

— Norman Maclean

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

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

— Theodore Gordon

We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no…

— William Cowper Prime

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

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

— Robert Altman

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

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a…

— Samuel Johnson

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

We grew up fishing, and we take it seriously.

— Maddie Marlow

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

— John D. Voelker

There is something basic about fishing that goes back to man's very beginnings.

— Robert Fuller