The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

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.

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 this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

. . 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.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.