Thanks for your input on the daily quotes. All but a handfull of you like
a mixture of humor and fishing/tying tips, so that's what it'll be. Below
is one of my quotes that I wrote several years ago. Hope you like it.
It has a little humor, but there's a subtle lesson on fishing for browns.
If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business;
the trout don't rise in Greenwood Cemetery.
Sparse Grey Hackle
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JIMMY D. MOORE,Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing
Hunting Club, Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River
RE: The daily quotes
Would you prefer the humorous type quotes like I've sent since
I took over the quotes again, or would you prefer fly tying / fishing
Tips quotes or a mixture ?
Lemme Know.
JIMMY D
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RE: The daily quotes
Would you prefer the humorous type quotes like I've sent since
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JIMMY D
Looking good on the stream doesn't mean a thing to a trout.
Jimmy D. Moore
Feb, 2002
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JIMMY D. MOORE, Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing
Hunting Club, Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout
Unlimited, Member TOWA, North Zone
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so that I
could afford to hunt and fish. Sam Snead
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JIMMY D. MOORE, Amateur Radio Station WB5RHT-
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Author - Moon Holler Misfits
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business
that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream
culture without actually landing you in an institution.
John Gierach
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JIMMY D.
Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I
should never be able to enjoy it if I had to rely on the cooperation of
the fish.
Sparse Grey Hackle
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JIMMY D. MOORE, Amateur Radio Station WB5RHT-
FREE Classic
Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show
a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife
John Voelker
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing Hunting Club,
If I'm not going to catch anything, then I 'd rather not catch anything on
flies
Bob Lawless.
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JIMMY D. MOORE, Amateur Radio Station WB5RHT
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout
...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up
and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm
protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the
window is open.
Anatomy of a Fisherman by Robert Traver
In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got
away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So
I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of
angling would be gone.
Ray Bergman
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If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads,
you're doing something wrong. John Gierach
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River
The fish and I were both stunned and disbelieving to find ourselves connected
by a line.
William Humphrey in The Armchair Angler
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP
When you finally meet in the course of leapfrogging down the canyon,
you'll say that a while ago you executed an L.D.R. (long distance
release) on a hawg, which will summarize the event as well as anything
else you could say.
Trout Bum by John Gierach.
To catch the fish you must be the fish.
But, if you are also what you eat, you must also surly be the fly.
What if you try to eat yourself then you become you all over
again. Oh the insanity of becoming a fly fisherman.
The peace is in doing and not thinking so much.
By:
Just so ya'll know. I'm back as QUOTEMEISTER. . Rick spelled me for a
while, but I now have the time to handle them and Rick needs a break.
Thanks, Rick for a job well done.
JIMMY D
When a man picks up a fly rod for the first time, he may not know, he
has been born again.
Joseph D. Farris
On Bass: This is one of the American freshwater fishes; it is surpassed by
none in boldness of biting, in fierce and violent resistance when hooked.
W H Herbert (Frank Forester) Fishes and Fishing [1850]
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
What I had mastered was Fly Fishing Rule # 1:'Remove all hooks from soft
tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve
endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter'.
I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Fly by Jessica Maxwell
False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in
the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to
absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the
greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the
Morning Gang.
In case you haven't noticed, I've been pretty much 'hit or miss' with
the QFTD and
JFTD lately. My editor job with Texas Fish Game magazine has grown to
the
point that I really don't have time to look up new fly fishing quotes
and new jokes.
Also, I have not been able to work
Had all the pens that go trout fishing devoted themselves to jotting down
notes about why the big fish did not gobble the grasshopper, we would have lost
many a page of sunshine, fresh air, and good fellowship, and instead, reaped a
crop of fireside disko troops who thought like fish.
William
Your line must always be fastened securely to the axle 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're not worth kicking.
Eric Taverner - The Angler's Weekend Book [1949]
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Between them, the old men must have created hundreds of trout flies and insect
mutants as bizarre and seductive as any to drop from a fly tier's vise. With
perhaps two exceptions, none of their titillating offerings ever stired a
trout's interest, a fact that didn't bother them at all.
Harry
Surprisingly, many anglers are ashamed to admit that they fish with
live bait. You'll run into one of these so-called purists on a trout
stream and ask him what he's using. He'll say, a Number thirty-two
Royal Coachman on a three-ounce leader Then he'll get a bite, snap his
line out of the
Happy Easter Passover
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish Game Mag,
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP
Like the finest umbilicus, casting your line into water joins you to
it. the currents speak to your bones in iced tongues. the loam perfume
of conifer rot and mud attunes your nose to the local biology. You taste
its chemistry, wash your ears in its sweet white noise, let it take you
back to a
Perhaps the reason that the dry-fly fishing was slow to catch hold in this
country lay in the fact that many British writers had expressed the idea that
it was poor technique for fast water. These writers meant that anything much
swifter than the placid chalk streams were impractical for the
There's no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just
as unsuccessful near home.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
North Zone Fishing
. . . . Not everything about fishing is noble and reasonable and sane. .. . .
Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it, all
of it, the good and the awful, the joyous and the miserable, the comic, the
embarassing, the tragic, and the sorrowful.
Harry Middleton
A gray-haired baitfisher is very rare, while the passion for
fly-casting, whether for trout or salmon, grows by what it feeds upon,
and continues a source of the highest pleasure even after the
grasshopper becomes a burden.
George Dawson, 1888
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The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that
weightlifters never clutter up their walls with stuffed barbells.
Ed Zern How To Tell Fish From Fishermen [1947]
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
Never throw a long line when a short one will serve your purpose.
Richard Penn [1833]
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish Game Mag,
Author - Moon Holler
However angling may be classed by others, whether as a fool's pastime
or as a wise man's recreation. I have always found great pleasure in
recognizing what its indulgence costs me as so much saved from my
doctor's bill.
George Dawson Pleasures of Angling
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Fishing textbooks being written by intensely practical men, sometimes
omit to remind us, if their authors think of it at all, that fly fishing
needs to have a touch of magic about it if we are to enjoy it to the
fullest.
Conrad Voss Bark - A Fly On The Water [1986
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As to glass or bamboo, I have always preferred bamboo over glass and am
still considered a holdout. True, I've fished with many glass rods that
I've designed myself for the manufacturers, so one would think that I've
arrived at the perfect rod at least for myself. This is not the case.
When I
Sorry about missing my QFTD's this week, but it's been a little
overwhelming, what with taking care of our twin grandsons and
transporting son Joe back and forth to doc/hospital - three trips, MRI,
TESTS, RE-TESTS and finally for the operation. All ended well though,
for Joe's arthroscpoic
It takes a while to get used to a parabolic rod, but they'll throw more
line than regular rods. A parabolic will definitely make you a better
caster, for it will slow your casting stroke down. This in itself will
improve your casting.
Jimmy D Moore
Moon Holler Misfits
...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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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
I hear what you're talking about, said the wife. But you will make no
impression on Humphrey. As long as the fish rise to his bait, everybody
is what he ought to be. Bless you, Casuabon has got a trout stream, and
does not care about fishing it himself: Could there be a better fellow?'
Well,
Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call
enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you
without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes,
expensive fishing tackle.
John Gierach
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There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect
confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any
statement, about it, are the words 'always' and 'never'.
Lord Grey of Falloson Fly-Fishing [1899]
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JIMMY D. MOORE
In the recollection of the trout fisherman it is always spring. The
blackbird sings of a May morning. The little trout jump in the riffles,
and the German brown comes surely to the fly on the evening rise.
R. Palmer Baker The Sweet of the Year [1965]
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The true sportsman needs neither game laws nor bag limits, nor does the
securing of a license make a sportsman. He must be moderate in his kill, find
part of the pleasure in being afield, and in observing the lives of the
denizens of the streams and wood. Many of our best days are those in
Fishing consists of a series of misadventures interspersed by
occasional moments of glory.
Howard Marshall Reflections On A River [1967]
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
North Zone Fishing
. . . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the
knowledge that evening that the whole rest of the season is to come.
Arthur Ransome The First Day At The River Rod And Line [1929]
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
Flytying relieves our minds by calming us when disappointments come along, and
by cheering the hearts of those who pursue it as relaxation and enjoyment.
William Blacker
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
The game of [nods] is played by tying a reasonable facsimile of the
insect being taken by a trout. Then many variations of this basic
pattern are tied with only slight differences in each of them. These are
in turn cast to a visible feeding trout, and its reaction is noted very
carefully . . .
My five piece fly rod is kind of like my American Express card. I never leave
home without it. Every stream, pond or puddle is inspected on my travels, and
I can thus while away spare (or stolen) moments discovering their potential.
Bob Voelker
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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
It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate
inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower
plates.
Ed Zern How To Tell Fish From Fishermen [1974]
Monday, February 16, 2004
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JIMMY D. MOORE
Sleeping we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and
fishermen of fish.
Theocritus
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish Game Mag,
Author - Moon
Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the
stream to a froth. Make fewer casts. Make them to places which count an
fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely.
Ray Bergman Trout
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JIMMY D. MOORE
The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few
minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm.
Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . .
George M.L. LaBranche The Dry Fly And Fast Water [1914]
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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
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to
attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Paul Schullery Mountain Time [1984]
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
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
Philmont Memories
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JIMMY D.
Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a
retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which suddenly sees its
approach. As the small fly gets nearer, the fish moves forward to
strike. But the tiny fly doesn't flee at the sight of the predator.
Instead it continues to
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
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
Buck and I fished a couple of miles of Sand Crick together that day,
reminiscing every step of the way over our adventures as kids along the same
crick. We came upon a half-submerged car, a 1937 Packard that someone had
dumped into the crick under the pretext of preventing bank erosion but
A young environmental engineer I met once, who was wise beyond her years, said
'the solution to pollution is dilution' and she is right, especially with
fisherman. Dilute the number of fisherman on any stretch of water and they all
do better. Dilute the catch limits and they also always do
There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it,
verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport
sandwiches and beer.
Robert Traver - Trout Madness - [1960]
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JIMMY D. MOORE
Saltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's
like sex after lunch.
Charles Ritz
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish Game Mag,
In 1918 I realized that the growing use of the automobile, with its easy
transportation, would soon spoil all public trout fishing.
Edward R. Hewitt A Trout and Salmon Fisherman for Seventy-Five years [1948]
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
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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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
So a salmon boils at the surface not too far from where you think your fly
will be, a few inches below the water. You are now expected to give the fish a
second? Two seconds? Or do you determinedly do as the fly trout fishers are
advised and shout, God save the Queen!?
Malcolm Greenhalgh
Nymph fishermen VS dry fly fishermen
Two good friends go fishing together, one a nymph fisherman and the
other a dry fly fisherman, both believing strongly in catch and release.
Not wanting to get in each other's way they decide that one will fish
upstream and the other down, and at an
I chose my cast, a march brown and a dun, and ran down the river,
chasing hope.
William S. Blount
A New Pilgrimage (1889)
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas
A fly fisher who jerks his rod back and forth like chopping wood with a
long handled axe and splays his line and fly on the water with a great
splash, doesn't deserve to catch a trout. Treat your fly rod with
respect. Be gentle with your cast and your fly will light on the water
like a snow
I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel
the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown
trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.
Edward Weeks Fresh Waters [1968]
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There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic
forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying
home.
Roderick Haig-Brown, Fisherman's Spring, 1951
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JIMMY D. MOOREjdmo...@fishgame.com
Unpacking one's kit is like meeting old friends. Every marred fly, every
frayed leader, every well-worn tip and line and reel, revives pleasant memories
of river, pool or camp-fire, of rise, or strike, or struggle, only less
real than the reality itself, for only itself can be its parallel.
He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to
assume . . . that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen
and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.
Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's
critters tempting decent men.
James Barrie, author of Peter Pan, 1891
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We ask a simple question. And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all
liars? Or do only liars fish?
William Sherwood Fox
Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
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JIMMY D. MOORE[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heaven seems a little closer in a house beside the water.
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I think Tony will agree with this. :-)
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JIMMY D. MOORE[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish Game Mag,
The angler who doesn't look before he leaps will have his next cast made of
plaster.
Patrick F. McManus
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JIMMY D. MOORE[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish Game Mag,
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
Fontinued from yesterday.
. . . . Thus fiendishly qualified for a brilliant diplomatinc career
he instead has time only to fish. So lesser diplomats continue to grope
and bumble and their countries continue to fall into war. The only hope
for it all, I'm afraid, is for the Lord to drive
Successful fly fisHing for trout is an act of high deceit; not only must the
angler lure one of nature's subtlest and wariest creatures, he must do so with
something that is false and no good - an artificial fly. Thus fake and sham
lie at the heart of the enterprise. The amount of
. . . the fisherman fishes. It is at once an act of humility and a
small rebellion. And it is something more. To him his fishing is an
island of reality in a world of dreams and shadow.
Robert Traver - Trout Madness [1960]
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JIMMY D. MOORE[EMAIL
May is when the bluegills on Alabama's Pickwick Lake really turn on.
It's an outstanding time to catch 20 to 30 sunfish for the table in a
couple hours of fishing in the early morning or late evening. Typically,
we catch filleting-sized bream - bluegills weighing between 1/2 to 3/4
pound -
To the fisherman born there is nothing so provoking of curiosity as a fishing
rod in a case.
Roland Pertwee The River God [1928]
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JIMMY D. MOORE[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Zone Fishing Editor -
Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked that
fly rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by
noonwell I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight. Right now I'm wading
this pretty little stream, casting my Copper John for browns! I'm sure
I'm told casual observers describe my stuff as a junk pile, although
only my wife Lori does this to my face. Fortunately, the
obsessive-compulisve disorder that causes stuff to accumulate means only
the accumulator can appreciate the value of his own stuff, so her
opinion and theirs doesn't
The truth is that live-bait fishing has a long and noble history. Live
bait was totally unknown to the early caveman, who had to make do with a
rather limited assortment of dry flies, nymphs, and a few streamers. One
day, whether out of exasperation or simple impatience, a caveman made a
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]
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but
#4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined
with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned
brookies quietly to the surface.
Edward Abbey
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When I go fishing I ... want to get away from it all, for it is silence
and solitude even more than it is fish that I am seeking ... As for big
fish, all is relative. Not every tuna is a trophy.
William Humphrey
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JIMMY D. MOORE[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The third reason for my liking the joys of rod and reel is it's
relative cheapness. - - - It has been my experience that fish usually
strike fastest and hardest in inverse ratio to the amount of money spent
on equipment.
Allan Fish
Uhh, Allan, what were the first two?
JIMMY D
Few fly-fishing experiences are as thrilling as seeing, stalking, and
then hooking the quarry. It's undoubtedly the appeal of dry-fly fishing
in streams. In my opinion, some stillwaters offer opportunities for even
more visible, heart-pounding moments.
Paul Marriner Stillwater Fly Fishing
But if the salmon and trout must be classified as elite in this
mythical social structure then let the black bass be given permanent
status as the working class of American gamefish. He's tough and he
knows it. . .
Pat Smith Old Iron Jaw [1979]
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The quote below can be applied to the VFB. The VFB exists because of
Byard Miller. It's his private water, not ours. More than once, in
talking with Byard, he has expressed frustration toward certain postings
on the list. At one point when we were going through a similar
discussion on the
The music of angling is more compelling to me than anything contrived
in the greatest symphony hall.
A. J. McClane Song of the Angler
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JIMMY D. MOORE[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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