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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