Saturday, March 25, 2006

"Knot: A tangle with a name."

Bear & McKie "A Dictionary For Constant Anglers"

Friday, March 24, 2006

"Unless you married someone who is as crazy about fishing as you are, then you already know how sex and fishing can come to conflict and grief."

Paul Quinenett in "The Wit & Wisdom of Fishing"

Thursday, March 23, 2006

"Club 1. Long bar of wood used to render fish senseless. 2. Place with a long bar of wood where fishermen go to render themselves senseless."

Beard & McKie "A Dictionary For Constant Angers"

Monday, March 20, 2006

Catch and Release fishing is a lot like golf. You don't have to eat the ball to have a good time.

Anon fly fishing guide

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

"When you come right down to it, taking a trout on a dry fly is about as simple a process as you can find in all fly fishing. Stream insects hatch, ride the surface film for a short time, and trout rise to snatch them before they take to the air. Well-tied dry flies imitate these insects with enough realism to fool many waiting trout. You just float them among rising fish, give them no action and let nature take its course."

Harold Blaisdell "Tricks that Take Fish" 1954

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

"If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours."

Ted Trueblood

Friday, February 24, 2006

"Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild."

Norm Dicks

Thursday, February 23, 2006

"Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time."

Hank Aaron

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

"The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins."

Dave Barry

Saturday, February 18, 2006

"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."

Darrell Royal

Friday, February 17, 2006

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

Karl Marx

Thursday, February 16, 2006

"I love to relive the memories of when I was spry enough to fish the little trout streams. Otherwise, I like to write and play poker."

Tony Hillerman

Friday, February 10, 2006

"Technical words and phrases have crept out to fuddle fly fishing, and the simplicity the small boy and Izaak Walton imparted to the sport is becoming burdened with complexity."

Jack Denton Scott

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

"I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it."

Linda Hamilton

Monday, February 06, 2006

"Playing a big trout in swift water is akin to flying a kite on a blustery day. The more line you let out, the more trouble you're going to have getting it back."

Jimmy D Moore