Izaak Walton Quotes

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

I have been known to catch sixty trout in one day.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Fly-fishing is really addictive.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout - I've been pretty much addicted ever since.

The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice