The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.