Quotes !

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

Fly fishing for trout has possibly the most extensive body of literature of any sport. Besides, one of the charms of our obsession is that it is never mastered, and leads off in all directions at once to new knowledge and interests. Entomology, geology, climatology, limnology (look it up!), history, and others.

If the weather really is too bad to fish (and that has to be pretty bad for us!), one can always read, (or surf the net, or tie flies)!

Fishing is a kind of reading, which is why so many fisherman, when they are not fishing and not tying flies, like to read about fishing. They indulge winter fantasies with articles about perfected streamers and new material for the belly of a jassid and with river stories -- the classics of Hemingway and Grey, those of the modern masters Schweibert, Chatham, Gierach and Lyons. Indeed, beyond reading as a form of self-help or of escape, fishing may not only be a kind of reading, but the most intense form of reading there is.