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Angling is a way to round out a happy life -----Charles K.Fox

 

 

For the true angler,fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy,born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful,and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature ----- Thaddeus Norris

 

 

After all these years,i still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream ----- Jimmy Carter

 

 

No life is so happy and pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler

---- Izaak Walton

 

 

One thing becomes clearer as one gets older and one's fishing experience increases,and that is the paramount importance of one's fishing companions

---- John Ashley-Cooper

 

 

I have fished through fishless days without regret.

---- Roderick Haig-Brown

 

 

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air,with the rush of a brook or with the shimmer of the sun on blue water.

---- Herbert Hoover

 

 

The angler is never a has-been.

He enjoys a lifetime of participation which continues through noon,then on into the sunset,and even into the eventide of life.

----Charles K.Fox

 

 

Fish come and go,but it is the memory of afternoons on the stream that endure.

----E.Donnall Thomas

 

 

Books cant make you a good fisherman,but they can make you a better one.

----fishermans saying

 

 

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

----Theodore Gordon

 

 

Beyond every bend in a stream lies a new fishing challenge,for no pool,riffle or rapids is just like the previous one.

----Dick Sternberg

 

 

You cannot step twice in the same river,for other waters are continually flowing in.

----Heraclitus

 

 

Every lesson you learn,no matter where you learn it,transfers to all other rivers,no matter where you fish.

----Dave Hughes

 

 

SD

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The old one...

 

Never leave fish to find fish

Moses circa 1200 BC, TB '04

 

and my favorite during the height of the season,

 

"Hey buddy, why don't you fish here, you'd be closer to your line"

shoe '79

 

and after hooking someone's line for the 3rd time, "If you wanted to see what I'm using, just ask"

rodeo '88

 

after hooking someone's line for the 5th time, "What, do you want my phone#?" wub.gif

rodeo '88

 

after hooking someone's line for the 7th time, "I guess you want to f***!" laugh.gif

rodeo '88

 

FTF

shoe '00

 

and a new one that will get some use this fall for the guys snagging, "Nuthin' like matching the hatch, eh" dunno.gif

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Hey shoe

 

I thought for sure you would post your sayin for when the fishings slow.

 

"Kind of like fishing just without the fish!"

 

Who created that one? Yourself?

 

Thats a goodie. biggrin.gif

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"It's better to have a rod and not need it, than to need a rod and not have it."

 

Actually, you could say the same thing about flies and beer too... biggrin.gif

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"We need a bigger boat" Peter Benchley - Jaws

 

Thanks for the credit and for cleaning up what I actually said Shoe.

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"FISH ON! Oh, son of a b****, just another f***ing snag!?!?!?!".

-----common phrase heard on the Olympic Peninsula

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fish on.... oh, nevermind.... shit, damn trees.

 

Q:why the hell do we fish in this forest again?

A:Because the damn fish like the scenery.

 

I hate you Don..... (LOL)

 

Why do other people catch more fish on my flies than me... son of a....

 

Just a few of the highlights that happen every trip.

 

steve

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Experience usually is what you get when you don't get what you want, but if there were no such thing as optomism, there would be no such thing as fishing.

-Micheal McIntosh

 

You won't catch every fish you try for, but don't let that discourage you, because the best fisherman who ever lived can't do it either.

-H. G. Tapply

 

I have never yet caught a fish on the first cast, nor have I ever made a first cast without thinking I would catch a fish.

-Ellington White

 

If a man fishes hard, What is he going to do easy?

-Roy Blount Jr.

 

Four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered with water, but only five percent of that is good fishing.

-Geoffery Norman

 

Any man who pits his Intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

-John Steinbeck

 

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conciet out of him.

-Zane Grey

 

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through the ally.

-Anonymous

 

The gods do not deduct from a man's alloted span the hours spent in fishing.

-Babylonian proverb

 

And my favorite, I think it's mostly a salmon fisherman thing 'caus I hear it alot every fall:

 

"FISH ON!!!"................(snap)...."F***!!!!!!"

-Every salmon fisherman who ever lived

 

Al

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