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
