Arnold Gingrich Quotes

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.