Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

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

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.

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

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