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Fishing, my research discloses, is older even than love and chess. Anatomy of a Fisherman |
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Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed. Trout Magic |
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Fishermen are a cultured and worldly lot; their broad and diversified interests make them delightful and even absorbing companions; they’ll talk about anything under the sun so long as it concerns fishing—preferably with themselves in a stellar role. Trout Madness |
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For I now embrace the heresy that the ‘best’ time to go fishing is when you can get away. Trout Madness |
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For among fishermen, as in the stock market, there are bulls and bears, the plungers and the timid souls, the lambs and the foxes, the avid ones and the dreamy fugitives from Walden. Anatomy of a Fisherman |
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Humility and open-mindedness sometimes catch far more fish than all the wise guys. Anatomy of a Fisherman |
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Fishermen are a perverse and restless lot, |
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Most fishermen, being human, naturally prefer recounting their little triumphs rather than their many failures— as our outdoor magazines so regularly and richly prove. Trout Magic |
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Perhaps we veer closest to penetrating the fisherman’s troubled psyche when we remember that in all fishing there is a persistent pattern of pursuit, capture, and exhaustion. Anatomy of a Fisherman |
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Fishing is unlike any other sport in the world, indoors or out—all of which, indeed, is a good part of its mystique and charm; fishing, when it’s done for fun— and what other reason is there?—has really little or nothing to do with athletes or their little games. “Showdown at Cedar Swamp” |
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Fishing is essentially a lonely pursuit I have learned; |
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Every fisherman has his favorite fishing spot, to which he returns with all the hypnotic fascination that lures the murderer back to the scene of his crime. Anatomy of a Fisherman |
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… for one likes to think there’s still a touch of Thoreau in every fisherman. “Gamboling at Frenchman’s” |
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Most fishermen swiftly learn that it’s a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman |
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…not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant—and not nearly so much fun. Anatomy of a Fisherman |
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It took me many years to learn |
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