When a man picks up a fly rod for the first time, he may not know, he has been born again.
-Joseph D. Farris
Game fish are too valuable to only be caught once.
-Lee Wulff
Flyfishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is, and that everyone is getting more than their share.
- Henry Kanemoto
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.
- Arnold Gingrich, 1969
Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God.
- Tony Blake
"If fishing is like religion, then fly fishing is high church."
-Tom Browaw
"The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly fishing."
-Jimmy Moore
“Lo, the fisherman’s wife. All she wants is the spare bedroom back. It’s covered with rods and reels, flies and vests, waders, rain gear, hooks and leaders, etc. For a trip six months from now. Not a safe place to step or sleep or rest! “But honey! I want to be prepared,” he says. So Lo the fisherman’s wife.”
-Jody Moore - April, 2000
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas."
-Roland Pertwee
"These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't get close enough to present it."
-Dick Blalock
"I am not against golf, since I cannot suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout."
-Paul O'Neil
What is Fly Fishing? "A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other."
-Anonymous
For the rich there's therapy for the rest of us there's Fly Fishing.
-Ken Marsh
"Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time."
-Zane Grey
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.
-Henry David Thoreau
"The solution to any problem is to go fishing. The bigger the problem, the longer the trip should be"
-John Gierach
"There is no use in your walking 5 miles to fish, when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home."
Mark Twain
