Angling Quote by Roderick Haig-Brown

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations.…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly,…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

— Roderick Haig-Brown