Fishing Quote by Norman Maclean

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

— Theodore Gordon

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

Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing…

— Bob Gibson

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 grew up fly fishing when I was a kid. The feeling of it is fun. I went fly-fishing on Lake Delaware once, and…

— Aaron Dessner

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

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

— Ed Zern

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

— Arnold Gingrich

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

— Clare Vanderpool

Flyfishing, which has a vaguely mystical aura, is a lot like work. I'm a frenetic flyfisherman. I wade up and down streams, looking for…

— James P. Gorman

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

— Patrick F. McManus