Amusement Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at…

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Patrick F. McManus

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 fun you can have standing up.

— Arnold Gingrich

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

— Howell Raines

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

— Ed Zern

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

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