Religion

"In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing."

~by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976~
 

Business

"If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business."

~by Alfred W. Miller~
 

Art?

"O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?"

~by Isaak Walton~
 

Fishing Poles

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles."

~by Doug Larsen~
 

Listen

"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout."

~Irish proverb~

Serenity

"There is certainly something in fishing that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, a pure serenity of mind."

~by Washington Irving~
 

The Romance–not shared

"All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish."
~by Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969~
 

Church

"Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God."

~by Tony Blake~
 

High Church

"If fishing is like religion, then fly-fishing is high church."

~by Tom Brokaw~
 

Tickling

"Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling."

~by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Nigh,t Act II, Scene ,1 Line 2~
 

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