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“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”

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Theocritus (ca. 315-260 BC) was a prominent Greek poet, often credited with being the founder of pastoral poetry. His works are known for their depiction of rural life and natural landscapes, which have had a profound influence on literature. more

“It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.”

“I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.”

May Mean Doe Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Release Lakes Fishing Let It Go

Book:The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors

Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors

“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”

Life Inspirational Persons Motivational Enthusiasm No Fear Enthusiastic Enthusiasm For Life

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.”

People Knows Men Facts Shows Water Memories Sea Men And Women Rivers Casts Fishes Intuition Boat Fancy Lakes Fishing Peculiar

Author:William Cowper Prime

“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.”

Firsts Has Beens Matter Issues Sea Rivers Fishes Attraction Endless Boat Uncertainty Lakes Fishing Imitation

Author:Paul Schullery

“If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.”

Ifs Want Sea Behavior Rivers Luck Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Equations Habitat

Author:Tony Bishop

“.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is the name of the one person on the planet who does not know their location!”

Knows Persons Long Doe Names Hours Walks Secret Half Four Sea Planets Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Pool Location Filling Long Hours Anglers

Author:Tony Bishop

“Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.”

Home Chance Sea Kissing Rivers Absolutes Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Catching Derision Kiss Of Death

Author:Tony Bishop

“Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.”

Firsts Lasts Next Chance Forget Sea Rivers Casts Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Next Time Anguish Forget It Cast Away

Author:Tony Bishop

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