Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.