"Young anglers love new rivers the way they……" — Thomas McGuane

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to… — Jerome K. Jerome
• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. — Izaak Walton
• Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no… — John Gierach
• Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch,… — John Wolcot
• Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown
• I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them… — Tom Felton
• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler… — Charles Kingsley
• A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness… — Leigh Hunt
• We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws,… — Leigh Hunt
• There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because… — Tom Felton
• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. — Izaak Walton
• The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up,… — Cyril Connolly

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