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

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

I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.

The best time to go fishing is when you can

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.