Thanks, Rick. If you'd like to hsndle the JFTD,
QUFD, You have my " Git Er Done.".
JIMMYD
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"These are good times to get involved in fly-fishing."
Silvio Calabi in "FlyFishing Always"
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I met Chuck and Sharon over 20 years ago when Chuck was tying here at the FFF
Conclave in Arkansas.I have one of Chucks Flies in my collection. I also had
his signed book before I sold my book collection.Tony
On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 11:32 AM, Allan Fish
wrote:
On 8/5/15 11:3
On 8/5/15 11:34 AM, Neville Gosling wrote:
I normally stagger *from* the stream not to it.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
At my age, I just stagger! :-(
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I resemble that comment Nev :)
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Neville Gosling
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> I normally stagger *from* the stream not to it.
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> On Aug 5, 2015, at 6:59 AM, 'Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail <
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I normally stagger from the stream not to it.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
On Aug 5, 2015, at 6:59 AM, 'Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail
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> "Fly fishers have argued the merits of sparsely versus fully dressed flies
> for centuries, and likely will carry it on for as long ss the last two
> anglers
"Fly fishers have argued the merits of sparsely versus fully dressed flies for
centuries, and likely will carry it on for as long ss the last two anglers on
the face of the planet still can stagger to the stream."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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I'm still in stage 1
Rene
On 02/26/2012 10:17 PM, Allan Fish wrote:
"The ancients wrote of the three ages of man, I propose to write of
the three ages of the fisherman.
When he wants to catch all the fish he can.
When he strives to catch the largest fish.
When he studies to catch the most diff
"The ancients wrote of the three ages of man, I propose to write of
the three ages of the fisherman.
When he wants to catch all the fish he can.
When he strives to catch the largest fish.
When he studies to catch the most difficult fish he can find,
requiring the greatest skill and most refined
"The ancients wrote of the three ages of man, I propose to write of
the three ages of the fisherman.
When he wants to catch all the fish he can.
When he strives to catch the largest fish.
When he studies to catch the most difficult fish he can find,
requiring the greatest skill and most refined
"To thoroughly enjoy fly fishing you need to get totally
immersed every once in a while."©
Jimmy D Moore
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"Fly fishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is,
and that everyone is getting more than their share."
Henry Kanemoto
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"Hard-hitting flashing fellows these, bred and reared in no protected
pond, but
in the cold crystal mountain waters. Any angler who has matched his
skill with
one of Nature's trout and then with the pampered stall-fed darlings of the
intensively stocked preserve, need not be told the difference
"I knew my tippet was too large when the willow
tree I'd hooked on my back cast came flying over
my head." © Jimmy D. Moore
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"Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it."
Ed Zern
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"When the going gets rough, go out and buy yourself a really nice fly
rod. When it gets rougher, buy a nice reel to go with it. Rougher still
? Buy yourself a pontoon boat or drift boat. Still rougher? Book a trip
to Kamchatka without telling your wife. Now, my good buddy, you're FIXIN
to find
"Fish are, of course, indispensable to the angler. They give him an
excuse for fishing and justify the fly rod without which he would be a
mere vagrant. But the average fisherman's average catch doesn't even
begin to justify, as fish, its cost in work, time, and money. The true
worth of fishing
On 1/27/2012 11:25 AM, Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the
day this morning? I sent two different quotes so as to make up for not
ending one earlier.Neither of them have yet hit my mailbox.If you get
the quote, please let me know.
Twilight
got both
- Original Message -
From: "Jimmy D. Moore"
To: "Virtual Fly Box"
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:25 PM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY 1/27/12
Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day
this morning? I sent two
I got them both as well
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
> Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day
> this morning? I sent two different quotes so as to make up for not ending
> one earlier.Neither of them have yet hit my mailbox.If you get the
I got them both.
J
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Of Jimmy D. Moore
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:26 AM
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY 1/27/12
Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receiv
agree with it, Thank you
-Original Message-
From: Jimmy D. Moore
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:25 AM
To: Virtual Fly Box
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY 1/27/12
Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day this
morning?
I sent two different quot
Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day this morning?
I sent two different quotes so as to make up for not ending one earlier.Neither of
them have yet hit my mailbox.If you get the quote, please let me know.
Twilight Zone, again.
Thanks,
JIM
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"Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to flying a kite on a
blustery day. The
more line you let out, the more trouble you're going to have getting it
back." ©
Jimmy D Moore
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"By the time I had turned thirty, I'd realized two important things.
One, I had to fish. Two, I had to work for a living."
Mallory Burton
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,author Moon Holler Misfits
Fishing & Hunting Club,
"When your fly rod breaks and your fly box is bare, it's time to quit
fishing.
Go sit in your chair. Light up your pipe. Pour some JD and drink till
you're ripe.
Don't worry about your rod and your flies. Just sit with your buddies
and tell fishing lies."
Jimmy D. Moore
"The End of the Day" [2
Jimmy D. Moore
1. You wade in your "brogans" and do it "bare legged."
2. Your flies are made from corn silk. If you don't catch anything, you
can at least smoke them.
3. You've mounted your Orvis Battenkill on a cane
pole.
4. You wear a Hawaiian "flower-de" shirt o
" He slept with his fly rod standing in the corner next to his bed. He didn't bother taking off his shirt and pants. His vest on the bed post and his wading boots were placed where he could swing off the bed, and like a fireman ram his feet into them. His fishing hat was by his pillow. The only thi
"Put backing on your line; even if you never use it. It helps you dream."
Jimmy D Moore
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Fishing & Hunting Club, Member, TOWA, Past VP Guadalupe
River Trout Unlimited,
ROTFLMBFAO !!
Rick Zieger wrote:
Jerk baits?
From: Jimmy D. Moore
To: Virtual Fly Box
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:22 PM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"Fly patterns are a lot like women. Some are flashy. Some are plain
and some
are in between. Look at your wife. She caugh
Jerk baits?
From: Jimmy D. Moore
To: Virtual Fly Box
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:22 PM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"Fly patterns are a lot like women. Some are flashy. Some are plain and some
are in between. Look at your wife. She caught you,
"The golden trout is larger than life. It is not just a trout, but an
embodiment of trout fishing taken, literally, to it’s highest realm.
Because they dwell in the highest, starkest and most remote terrain in
this country, the pursuit of goldens is not a casual affair."
By Ralph Cutter
ANYBO
"Fly patterns are a lot like women. Some are flashy. Some are plain and some
are in between. Look at your wife. She caught you, right? Tie a fly
patterned
after her, and you'll probably catch a lot of fish, but don't dare tell
her if you're
tying 'plain'."
P.S. Wonder which category we fall in
"I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every
chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the
taste of it out of my mouth."
Ed Zern
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"Have you ever noticed that trout seem to take better
as our fly gets more ragged? Think I'll start tying
ragged flies. Hell, on second thought, I don't even
have to think about it, because my flies come out of
the vise that way."
Jimmy D Moore
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"Ordinarily the man accustomed to a 9-foot fly rod would reduce to one
about 7 feet long and feel that he was equipped for working a small
brook. This, I beg to point out, is only the palest concession to that
kind of angling. If we chop 4 feet off that, however, the remaining 3
foot length wil
"The farther you travel to fish, the worse the fishing will be. However, it will improve immediately after you leave to return home, thus the old saying: The fishing is always better the day before you get there and the day after you leave."
Will Rogers
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"Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a
worm-fishrman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman.
For which we should all be eternally grateful."
Ed Zern "How To Tell Fish From Fishermen" (1947)
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This is one of my more popular poems. It can also
be used as a quote. If you'd like me to post more
of my fly fishing poems, let me know. All are 10
guaranteed to make you laugh.
Have a Goodun.
JIMMYD
A FLY TYING FANATIC !
Cotton balls, wine corks, tow sacks, I save'em all.
Craft beads, spa
MORE TO COME.
Neville Gosling wrote:
Jimmy:
Love those quotes from Arthur Ransome!
Neville (Nev) Gosling
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Jimmy:
Love those quotes from Arthur Ransome!
Neville (Nev) Gosling
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"I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had
wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and
motoring and marriage, and had in his way postponed his intiation to
trout fishing far too long!"
Arthur Ransome "On Giving Advice To Beginners" [1929
"They say that to catch brown trout you have to be near invisible. I
tried that on the Cimarron in 1999. It worked so well that a large brown
bear never saw me as he snatched my fish from the end of my tippet."
Jimmy D Moore
"The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you
"It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever
kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the
part of the trout to take to this method. . . . No sportsman however,
will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone."
Charles Dudley
From time to time, when I miss a day or two, I'll throw in some extra
quotes. Hope you don't
mind.
"Fishing books, lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like
poetry. We do not think of them as books but as people. They are our
companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they
"The recollection of what has been and the anticipation of what is to be; the quiet discourse of men with like tastes, of past successes and of anticipated triumphs; reminiscences of river and lake and forest and camp-fire, make up a series of prospective and retrospective pleasures akin to those e
Probably more so cause I think trout are probably smarter than a lot of NFL
defensive linemen for example LOLOL, Chuck
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To: "Virtual Fly Box"
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:49 AM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman
as the ability to read a defense is to a
NFL Quarterback."
Jimmy D Moore
Copyright 2003
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,author Moon Holler Misfits
Fishi
"This winter I'm determined for once to fish sensibly, and by that I
mean in comfort, to try not only to match the hatch, but also to match
the weather."
Dr. Tom Sutcliff "Reflections on Fisning" [1980]
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"Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to flying a kite on a
blustery day. The more line you let out, the more trouble you're going
to have getting it back."
Jimmy D Moore
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,author Moo
"These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't
get close enough to present it."
Dick Blaylock
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Fishing & Hunting Club, Member, TOWA, Pas
"Fish are, of course, indispensable to the angler. They give him an
excuse for fishing and justify the fly rod without which he would be a
mere vagrant. But the average fisherman's average catch doesn't even
begin to justify, as fish, its cost in work, time, and money. The true
worth of fishing
"Hard-hitting flashing fellows these, bred and reared in no protected
pond, but in the cold crystal mountain waters. Any angler who has
matched his skill with one of Nature's trout and then with the pampered
stall-fed darlings of the intensively stocked preserve, need not be told
the difference
"For the supreme test of a fisherman is not how many fish he has caught,
not even how he has caught them, but what he has caught when he has
caught no fish."
Unknown
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On 12/16/2011 10:22 AM, Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
"If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right
{fishing} 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, t
"If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing}
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
"When if chance or hunger's powerful sway directs the roving trout this
fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles
the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy
rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!"
John Gay
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"If all the fish in the world suddenly disappeared, I know of many fly
tyers who would go right on tying flies as if nothing had happened,
myself included!"
Jimmy D. Moore, Feb. 2004
SORRY TO BE SO LATE. LOW ON BRAIN CELLS. :-P
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"Fishing for browns requires stealth, patience, a lot of hiding behind
bushes and limited wading. About the only time you'll see me hiding
behind a bush is when I encounter a bear. I'd rather be on the water
heading upstream. Doesn't seem to bother the rainbows and it's probably
the reason I do
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali, he was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."
Steven Wright
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Fishing & Hunting Club, Member, TOWA, Past VP
"Last Sunday I fished up a certain river most of the day and through my
supernal skill and encyclopedic knowledge of angling was able to take a
dozen brook trout. If I had kept them I would have had the makings of a
nice can of sardines."
Sparse Grey Hackle
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I can relate to this personally, for years I paddled the canoe while my
husband Jerry fly fished. I took up tying in '95 to save $$ as he like
to fish the Rangley streamers that sold for a whole 1.95 at the time.
Then one day in 1997 I sold 3 houses in Lowell,MA called a Triple hat
trick, so
You are braver than me. I would fear not only for the pan but for future
reminders that would hurt worse.
Mike
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Allan Fish wrote:
> "An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
>> grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noislessl
"An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noislessly along
the shoreline of a bass lake at one-half to two-thirds of a mile an
hour - the proper speed for fly-rod fishing with bass bugs - is not
an outboard motor, but a
cute jimmy d cute
dave
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From: Jimmy D. Moore
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:29 AM
To: Virtual Fly Box
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noisl
"An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noislessly along the
shoreline of a bass lake at one-half to two-thirds of a mile an hour -
the proper speed for fly-rod fishing with bass bugs - is not an outboard
motor, but a
"Fishing books, lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like
poetryWe do not think of them as books but as friends. They are our
companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us
and what a pleasant company they are."
Arthur Ransome "The Fisherman's Library" [195
"The one great ingredient in successful fly fishing is patience.
The man whose fly is always on the water has the best chance.
There is always a chance of a fish or two, no matter how hopeless
it looks. You never know what may happen in fly fishing."
Francis Francis (1862)
><
"My wife said I have so many fly rods and reels
that I cannot possibly use them all. My reply
was that I had rods and reels to fish, rods
and reels to tinker with and then my fine
crafted rods and reels to "fondle and admire,
while dreaming of trout fishing during the
cold winter months. You
: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"Trout fishing is always the best in the hardest to reach places, those with
the steepest, crookedest, bumpiest, narrowest roads, or no roads at all. That's
also where the bugs are thickest, but who cares about roads or bugs when you
can catch big trout all
"Choose your fly fishing friends wisely. They can
have an effect on how many and the size of the trout
you catch. Fly fishers who spend a lot of time fishing
together will unconciously adopt some of the other's
mannerisms, choice of flies and casting techniques
over time. Surrounding yourself
"Trout fishing is always the best in the
hardest to reach places, those with the
steepest, crookedest, bumpiest, narrowest
roads, or no roads at all. That's also
where the bugs are thickest, but who cares
about roads or bugs when you can catch big
trout all day! Rough roads, bugs and good
fishing
"Trout fishing is always the best in the
hardest to reach places, those with the
steepest, crookedest, bumpiest, narrowest
roads, or no roads at all. That's also
where the bugs are thickest, but who cares
about roads or bugs when you can catch big
trout all day! Rough roads, bugs and good
fi
Oh he saw you, just wasn't into junk food.
D&R,
DonO
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Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 8:06 AM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"They say that to catch brown trout you have
to be near invisible. I tried that on the
Cimarron in 1999
"They say that to catch brown trout you have
to be near invisible. I tried that on the
Cimarron in 1999. It worked so well that a
large brown bear never saw me as he snatched
my fish from the end of my tippet."
Jimmy D. Moore, 1999
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"Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to
flying a kite on a blustery day. The more line
you let out, the more trouble you're going to
have getting it back."
Jimmy D Moore
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There are eight species of rabbits in the MONTANA
the Eastern Cottontail, Mountain Cottontail,
Desert Cottontail, Snowshoe Hare, White-tailed
Jack Rabbit, Black-tailed Jack Rabbit, Pygmy
Rabbit, and the American Pika. However, I've
been told that during trout season, fly
fishermen outnumber th
You gotta hold the tail just right...
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The response was great
The response was great. All positive. So - here's the
first one. Hope you enjoy it. LOL
“Fishing too light a fly line is like trying to
cram a wet noodle up a wildcat’s ass.”
Jimmy D. Moore
2000
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Now Jimmy - a little kitty against one of those 1500lb bulls - hmm this
sounds like a fish tale - or is that bull tail?
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
> Well, now, there, then Rene. Let's recap my accidents. LOL. Busted lip -
> block of wood from wood lathe
> Broken leg
Well, now, there, then Rene. Let's recap my accidents. LOL. Busted
lip - block of wood from wood lathe
Broken leg - wading the Gunnison. Torn Posterior foot ligament - big
ligament on bottom of foot from
heel to toe. Walking barefoot on back porch. No issues with Calico.
Was his brother Dia
" 'Over the years,' he once wrote,'great minds have brooded about
whether fishermen were crazier than golfers.' There is much to be said
for both sides. Golfers spend hours knocking an innocent little ball
across the landscape, often getting wet and numb in the process, and
return home with not
Hi Jimmy,
at least you didn't brake your leg or even more valuable parts.
I think we both are now close to 10 years on the list, and during this
time frame you had a couple of accidents. Some broken legs, some issues
with Callico, the was a story with a woodworking lathe etc. You should
really be m
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Moore
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
To: "Virtual Fly Box" , "Fly Fishing World"
, "Hill Country Fly Fishers"
Date: Friday, July 9, 2010, 8:38 AM
Sorry about missing the QFTD this week. Broke my right foot on Tuesday.
Tripped on a step and sit down on my foot.
Jimmy,
You and your poor feet! You're going to develope a defeetist attitude.
G-R-O-A-N!!
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Sorry about missing the QFTD this week. Broke my right foot on Tuesday.
Tripped on a step and sit down on my foot. The break is right behind the
base of my two toes next to big toe. Not much to do about it except to
tough it out. The steps weren't really steps, but "landings" and were about
tw
Jimmy,
You and your poor feet! You're going to develope a defeetist attitude.
Buggs
- Original Message -
From: Jimmy D. Moore
To: Virtual Fly Box ; Fly Fishing World ; Hill Country Fly Fishers
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:38 AM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Sorry about missing the QFTD this week. Broke my right foot on Tuesday.
Tripped on a step and sit down on my foot. The break is right behind the
base of my two toes next to big toe. Not much to do about it except to
tough
it out. The steps weren't really steps, but "landings" and were about
Apparently, Harold never fished the Flathead River…
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Of Jimmy D. Moore
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 11:44 AM
To: Virtual Fly Box; Fly Fishing World; Hill Coountry Fly Fishers
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"...neither time nor repetition has destroyed the illusion that the rise of a trout to a dry fly is properly regarded in the light of a miracle."
Harold Blaisdell "The Philosophical Fisherman" [1969]
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"Under the conditions then prevailing - the thermometer recording 97
degrees in the shade, the stream at its lowest point, and the
temperature of the water very high - I really believe that the only
chance he might have had would have been with a very 'wet' Mint Julep."
George M. L. La Branche
"In the first place, sheer lightness in a rod doesn't necessarily mean
less effort. The difference between a two ounce rod and a longer five
ounce model in ratio to the angler's total weight on the scales is about
the same as drinking half a tumbler full of water or going thirsty."
"Fly-fishin
"Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to flying a kite on a blustery day. The more line you let out, the more trouble you're going to have getting it back."
Jimmy D Moore
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,author Moon H
Forgot the rod being bent…
From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Jimmy D. Moore
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:05 AM
To: Virtual Fly Box; Fly Fishing World; Hill Country Fly Fishers
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"... standing in a cool s
"... standing in a cool stream with a mountain range or a meadow nearby, fly rod in hand and cigar in mouth, flask in my hip pocket, is the way God meant mankind to live."
Jon Margolis and Jeff MacNelly
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JIMMY D. MOORE,
LOL! I love this one!
Wayne
On Tue Jun 29th, 2010 4:48 PM EDT LESTER BELL wrote:
>Well said.
> - Original Message -
> From: Jimmy D. Moore
> To: Virtual Fly Box ; Fly Fishing World ; Hill Country Fly Fishers
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:38 PM
> Subject: [
Well said.
- Original Message -
From: Jimmy D. Moore
To: Virtual Fly Box ; Fly Fishing World ; Hill Country Fly Fishers
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:38 PM
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"The line must always be fastened securely to the shaft of the spool. I
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"The line must always be fastened securely to the shaft of the spool. If you
forget once and a fish strips the reel naked, you deserve several kicks. If you
forget a second time, you are not worth kicking!"
Eric Taverner & John M
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