Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.
Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
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
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.
A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.
