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

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From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing. — John Gierach

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They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach

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

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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. — John Gierach

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I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get an idea on how to do something differently, but try to save it to try out later rather than break my comfortable rhythm. I don't worry about forgetting it. In my experience good ideas stay with you, while bad ones go back to where they came from, and good riddance. — John Gierach

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Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. — John Gierach

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Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. — John Gierach

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

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We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish. — John Gierach

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Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments. — John Gierach

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Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat. — John Gierach

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Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. — John Gierach

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The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith. — John Gierach

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Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle. — John Gierach

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I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. — John Gierach

John Gierach Fishing Quotes By John Gierach

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think — John Gierach

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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. — John Gierach

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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. — John Gierach

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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. — John Gierach

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It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. — John Gierach