“Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.” BeautifulWaterWhiteSeaColdRiversGreenFishesBoatStreamsLakesFishingFar AwayPacificNew ZealandTroutCold Water Author:Zane Grey
“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.” PeopleTryingDoeSeemsBeautifulValuesLeftSocialSportsSeaAspectRiversFishesAccomplishGenuineBoatStreamsLakesFishingSolitarySurroundingsCrowdedLeft AloneContemplativeTrout Author:John Gierach
“Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.” IfsShowsBeautifulSpiritFeltWaterSeaElementsRiversPrivilegeFishesBoatGrantedLakesFishingShow MeMarvellousInscrutable Author:Zane Grey
“Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.” WayTryingTwoBodyBeautifulMovingSeaWalkingRiversDirectFishesBoatLakesFishingBalletEfficientFly Fishing Author:Howell Raines
“The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.” KidsBeautifulWaterEnvironmentSeaStreetsAmountConcernRiversFishesCornersBoatLakesFishingSaltRecreationStreet CornersSalt WaterPinball Author:Rex Hunt
“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.” MenBeautifulGreaterSeaBrotherRiversKillingFishesNobleBoatLakesFishingOld ManCalmerFish In The Sea Book:The Old Man and the Sea Source: The Old Man and the Sea