Who has entertaining fishing quotes or lore?

[jlibs]

"Get up! The chair is for women and fish over 200 pounds"
-Mexican Charter Captain

[DanaC]

A collection of quotes from John Gierach:

"Half of getting old is inexorable biology, but the other half is attitude."

"A few days before X-mas" in "Dances with trout"
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"In the long run, fishing usually amounts to a lifetime of pratfalls punctuated by rare moments of perfection."

"On the best day of fishing you'll ever have, you still won't be able to catch them all.'

"Green Drakes" Fly Rod & Reel June '01
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"(It) probably won't occur to you that you don't need everything until you've already owned everything at least once."
FR&R Nov/Dec '99
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"If you want to stay interested for the rest of your life, take up something that can never quite be reduced to a science." "The View From Rat Lake" p96
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"Skill in fishing is a nebulous thing based largely on seasoned intuition, perhaps informed by a little knowledge, but catching a few fish now and then doesn't mean you have it." "Pike" in "Even Brook Trout Get The Blues"
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"(H)uman activity is the only thing in nature that doesn't seem to happen in it's own sweet time, which is the real reason you have more fun fishing than you do working." "The New Pond" in EBTGTB
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"Fly fishing is one small part of American culture where it's still assumed that experienced and a little age naturally bring wisdom." "West" in "Dances With Trout"
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"It took me a long time to get to where I could fish as if it mattered, but not as if I was at war with the trout. (I had to work at it at first, but now I prefer it that way.)" "Quitting Early" in "Dances With Trout"
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"By the time I was a teenager I fit the standard profile of a lifelong angler: I was lazy, shiftless, unambitious, and willing to work hard only at things that were widely considered useless. My folks thought I'd grow out of it." "Death, Taxes and Leaky Waders" Introduction
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"Things are seldom perfect, and perfection itself may be overrated, but life can still be good." "Cutthroats" in "In Praise of Wild Trout"
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"The best fishermen I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead, they always strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them." Fly Fishing The High Country" p5
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"Imagine the first human to conceive of this. He'd have dipped a hook in the water and plucked out a fish. People wouldn't have believed him, so he'd have shown them and it would have seemed like magic. Some days it still does." "Still Life With Brook Trout" p22
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"You're not supposed to anthropomorphize, but if fish hated fishermen you really couldn't blame them." Still Life... P129
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"I love hearing theories about flies. True or not, they always sound so good." "Still Life... p 158
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"(T) he few dumb fish that live in every stream are a fisherman's best friends." Still Life... p 194
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"Snobbery occurs as the result of a logical fallacy. We all want to experience and appreciate something of excellent quality, but it doesn't follow that we're every bit as good as what we do."

"Purity by nostalgia is an interesting idea, but the logic of it is inescapable. To do it right you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each." The Purist, in The View From Rat Lake

[JoeOverlock]

Gierach rocks! ;D

[gonefishing]

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll sit by the river all day drinking beer!" - My buddy Jake

[gonefishing]

"There's no tonic like the Housatonic" - Oliver Wendell Holmes