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.
Roderick Haig-BrownA fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.
Roderick Haig-BrownOur tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Roderick Haig-BrownI remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.
Roderick Haig-BrownI have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.
Roderick Haig-Brown