I imagine that no
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. G. E. M. Skues
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I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. G. E. M. Skues
Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper. G. E. M. Skues
The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he … Read more
I never lost a little fish – Yes, I’m free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away. Eugene Field
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. Etty Hillesum
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids. Ernesto Bertarelli
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But … Read more
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. Ernest Hemingway
Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red. Erin Hunter
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today’s Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour … Read more