Aesthetic Quote by 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

Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful…

— Howell Raines

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 the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers,” Gunnar said. “It is the contemplative man’s recreation.”

— 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

I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable…

— Joseph Monninger

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

— Ed Zern

Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a…

— John Gierach

Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.

— Zane Grey

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers,…

— Paul Schullery