John Gierach 7 Famous Fishing Quotes

John Gierach is an American author of numerous books on fly-fishing like The View from Rat Lake, Even Brook Trout Get the Blues, and the cult classic, Trout Bum, which popularised the term "trout bum".

7 Famous Fishing Quotes by John Gierach

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it’s the one thing I can think of that probably doesn’t.

Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to ‘fish fine and far off,’ but no one has ever improved on that statement.

I think I fish, in part, because it’s an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

The solution to any problem –work, love, money, whatever  is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

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Arnold Gingrich Famous Fishing Quotes

Arnold Gingrich was an avid fly fisherman and magazine editor who born in Grand Rapids, Michigan of Mennonite parents in December 5, 1903 and die on July 9, 1976. 

Gingrich published such authors as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Garry Wills, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer. He was also one of the few magazine editors to publish F. Scott Fitzgerald regularly in the late 1930s, including Fitzgerald's The Pat Hobby Stories.

Gingrich also published stories by Jack Woodford, whom he befriended when they worked together at an advertising agency in the 1920s.

Arnold Gingrich Top 10 Fishing Quotes

Fly fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.

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