I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.