"Fishing restores perspective. When we escape to the solitude of quiet water,
the day's fleeting troubles seem to evaporate into the mist; in the presence
of Nature, spiritual order is restored."
Criswell Freeman "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"The fact is that few fishermen have the patience to wade as quietly and as
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"A good fishing trip, like a well cooked meal or a well-lived life, always
ends a little to soon."
Criswell Freeman "The Fisherman's guide to Life"
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"From all this it should be clear that wading is a tactic that comes into play
only after much fishing has been done."
George Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"'
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"Clearly, kneeling and crouching along a trout stream are not pleasurable
undertakings. ... But they are very effective ways to catch fish - sometimes
the only way."
George Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"
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"If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks."
George Allen "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"A fisherman must be of a contemplative mind, or it is a long time between
bites."
Herbert Hoover "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"the pace or frequency of the rise forms can also give hints as to what fly
tie on. The big-bodied land insects seldom enter the water in great abundance,
and rises to these insects are generally at a more staccato pace. Fish rising
steadily, at a more or less regular tempo, are more than lik
"Let's face it" most of us are more avid anglers than we are entomologists."
Gerald Almy "Tying and /Fishing Terrestrials"
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"The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while
you are still able."
Sparse Grey Hackle "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Normally the air will be full of insects, may flies and caddis flies, beetles,
grasshopper, crickets and whatnot. What rule of priority makes the mayfly more
important than the beetle, or the caddis fly more important than the cricket?"
A J Mc lane quoted in "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials" by
"Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish, goes
home through the alley."
Anonymous
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"Imagine individual raindrops the size of a calf and weighing a hundred pounds
pelting the earth, and you will have a vivid impression of the force a mild
summer shower represents to a typical terrestrial insect."
George Almy "Tying an Fishing
Terrest
"Fishing equipment is fun."
Roderick Hair-Brown "The fisherman's Guide to Life"
PS. Great fun on a pond this morning.
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"Terrestrial insects outnumber the aquatics by such a wide margin that the term
'insect' is virtually synonymous with terrestrials insect in everyday usage.
Even fly fisherman fail to comprehend that, by comparison, the aquatic insects
comprise a tiny category - barely five percent of all insec
"And without a doubt, the tome, pace, and atmosphere of fishing the
terrestrials has its own allure. Most obvious is the slow, smooth tempo of
fish. Intense hatches of aquatics offer exciting sport. But they have a way
of getting angler tightened up like overwound alarm clocks, and the resul
"The music of angling is more compelling to me than anything contrived by the
greatest symphony."
A J McClane "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Like most anglers, I take special pleasure in the rhythms and rituals of fly
fishing."
Gerald Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"
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"Men have long now that fishing turns men into philosphers, but it hard to buy
good tackle on a philosphers salary."
T shirt
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"The fact of the matter is, we anglers, depend upon and cherish the words of
our predecessor and fellow fishermen."
Gerald Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"
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fun to make only once.
On May 5, 2016, at 4:48 PM, 'Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail
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Went o a pond this afternoon. id not take the canoe as I knew that I could not
drive to the pond. White flies were the thicket. Got over 100 fish in two
hours. Great fun and a lot of fllle
Went o a pond this afternoon. id not take the canoe as I knew that I could not
drive to the pond. White flies were the thicket. Got over 100 fish in two
hours. Great fun and a lot of fllleting.
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"Fortunately, no other sport, spectator or participant, can boast of such a
volume and quality in its literature as fly fishing for trout."
Gerald Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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"Fishing is a humbling sport. Even the most seasoned angler must, from time
to time, relearn the lessons that only failure can teach."
in "The Fisherman's Guide to LIfe"
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Gills and crappie.
Rick
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Are you heading out for some bluegills?
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"The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the
application of cold water and fresh, untainted air."
Theodore "Gordon "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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PS could be warm water where I will be today.
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"Successful hunters and fishermen are precise observers of the world around
them. They have to be to be successful."
George Reiger "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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Dinner for your wife, as she has put up with you.
Rick
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| Hi All;I should begin tying again in a couple days and was th
"if I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago."
Zane Grey "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"If people truely worried about he important things in life, there would be a
shortage of fishing poles."
Tee shirt on line.
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Not me.
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What are the qualifications to be "well govern'd" ???
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"No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-govern'd angler."
Izzak Walton "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"We read and dream if the big trips, but a lot of us mostly fish nearby, and
it's nearby that we are best qualified to identify the great anglers among us
anyway. Famous authors of famous books have their place, but when it comes
right down to it, I want to know what you think when I fish with
"Fly fishers, perhaps more than most other sportsmen, are notorious for our
accumulation of tackle, fly-tying materials, and related odds and ends."
"If Fish Could Scream" John Schullery
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Not he news I wanted to hear.
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Well, not real good situation, infection was all the way to my insert and doc
had to remove it. Looks like I'll be starting over again.
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I use many colors of thread. Have way to many bobbins.
Rick
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I use Black, Florescent Orange, Olive, Chartreuse, Brown and Red.Arkansas Tony,
"Fly fishing invites us into so many kinds of wonder and wondering that even in
our most idle moods it can surprise us with new insights and questions."
"If Fish Could Scream" Paul Schullery
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"Lesson 10: Yu don't have to run."
"in-Fisherman" vol 41 no 2
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bber bands the craft type that come in multiple colors and that
people weave? I got some of those from Gary Jones, he used them for nymph
bodies.WayneSent from Yahoo Mail on Android |
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"Lesson 9: Some fish have funny names."
"In-Fisherman" vol 41 no 2
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Fishy Fisburne gave me some small round rubber bands to make legs out of.
Different look on the flies.
Rick
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Wayne,
Rick Zieger taught me a new way
"Lesson 8: Fisherman are he-men." We eat are opponents.
"In-Fisherman" vol 41 no 2
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"Lesson 7: Anglers have great clothing."
"In-Fisherman" vol 41 no 2
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"Lesson 5" Fishing is a connection to nature."
"In-Fisherman" vol 41 no 2
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"Lesson 5. Fishing loves the letters 'c' and 'k'." king, carp, clevis,
croaker, coalfish, calico, crabs
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"Fishing hates the letter 'g"."
How many word leave the letter "g" of. bassin', flippin', fishin'
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"Lesson Three. Fishing offer a lot of options."
"In=Fisherman" vol 41 no 2
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"Lesson 2 Fishing has great jargon."
"In-Fisherman" vol 41 no 2
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"Lesson One. Fishing is a sport of irony."
"In-Fisherman vol 41 no. 2
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I will be gone April 13-17. Does anyone want to do quotes those days?
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"The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the
application of cold water and fresh, untainted air."
Theodore Gordon "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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Some days, it's sufficient to think about where the fish might be, or why the
flies are hatching, or why even the best fly tiers on earth can't seem to
narrow down the appropriate pattern of the little western mayfly know as the
Pale Morning Dun."
Paul Schullery "If Fish Could Scream"
Rick
"Fly fishing positions us so superbly to feel and wonder - abstractly,
reverently, analytically, poetically, whimsically, or in another way within our
capabilities - that is would be a tragic loss of intellectual and emotion
opportunity if had never arisen as a human pursuit."
Paul Schullery
"I can't believe one would enjoy one's kills very much without a nice
percentage of misses."
T H white ""The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"When is the best season f the year to go a-fishing? When you feel like it and
can leave house and business."
Charles Bradford "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"There was never an angle who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking
the conceit out of him."
Zane Grey "The Fisherman's Guide to life"
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"The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you be3tter do your fishing while
you are still able."
Sparse Grey Hackle "The Fisherman's Guide to life"
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"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is
earth's eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own
nature."
Henry David Thoreau "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Life without fishing is like a dull pencil, there is no point."
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"I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily and without
regret."
Roderick Haig-Brown "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"The perennial argument over which bass is the better fighter, pound for pound,
is in my opinion quite ridiculous. There is far to much difference between one
individual bass and another within each species, and far to much depends on
where a bass is hooked, how cold or war the water is , and s
"It is not the fish we catch that counts, for they can be had for mere silver.
It is the break of the waves, the jouous rush f the brook, and the
contemplation of the eternal rush of the stream."
Herbert Hoover "The Fisherman's Guide Life"
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"I know of no optimism so great as that which perennially blooms in the heart
of a fisherman."
Burton L Spiller "The /fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"The good angler must bring a large measure of hope and patience." Izaak
Walton "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"We fisherman dream far more often of our favorite sport than other men dream
of theirs."
William Diig The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Luck affects everything let your hook always be cast. In the stream where u
least expect it, there will be fish."
Ovid "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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PS The flue going around is a pain.
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"Nothing grows faster than a fish from the time it is he bites until the time
it gets away."
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"Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man."
Herbert Hoover "The "Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"To learn is a natural pleasure not confined to philosophers, but common to all
men."
Aristotle found online
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"man masters nature not by force but by understanding."
Jacob Bronowski "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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PS Quotes will be spasmotic the next two weeks.
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I will be there.
Rick
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We are heading up to Georgia for a week to take a look around on Tuesday then
over towards Mountain Home arriving on the 3rd at B
"He who is content to not-catch fish will have his time and attention free for
the accumulation of a thousand experiences."
Sparse Grey Hackle "The Fisherman's Guide to life"
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"Life without fly fishing is like a dull pencil, there is no point."
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"A thousand trips go by, indistinguishable from one another and then suddenly
one comes along that is fatefully perfect."
A. J. McClane "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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No one said I was sane.
Rick
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"Be content. The water hath enough fish."
Adapted from Thomas Fuller "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Fly fishing helps keep my life in balance."
Found online.
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"Finally, never throw a fish back in the water.
George Reiger "FlyFishing Forever"
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"So frequent eh cast. So seldom the strike."
Arnold Gingrich "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Never cut what you can untie."
Joseph Joubert "The Fisherman's Guide to
Life"
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"Fly fishing, despite its arguments that it will take more fish, has always
been a limitation: and its limitations are why I love it."
Nick Lyons "FlyFishing Forever"
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"Your outfit may be elaborate, or it may be a cane pole. Fortunately, the size
of your kit is no indication of the pleasure you derive."
Jack Randolph "the Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"The hasty angler looses fish."
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"The research suggests that angling for largemouth bass at colder temperatures
(less than 60 degrees F) may cause greater physiological stress than at warmer
temperatures ( greater than 60 degrees F). One possible reason for this is
that bass at colder temperatures are further from their metab
"A fish is larger for being lost"
Japanese proverb
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"Bragging may not bring happiness, but to a man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley."
Anonymous
May have true before, but now many of put them back in the water.
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"Fishermen are an optimistic class of they would not be fishermen."
Herbert Hoover "The fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"What is emphatic in angling is made so by the long silences - the unproductive
periods."
Thomas McGuane "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Older Anglers know that misfortune is but a proper contrast to the good days
astream."
A. J. McClane "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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Went to the Hawkeye Fly Fishers meeting today and tied flies. Meet some nice
folks and learned some new things.
Rick
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"As the anglker looks back, he thinks less of individual captures and days than
of scenes in which he fished."
Lord Grey of Fallondon "The Fisherman's Guided to Life"
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"Why do I fish? The easiest answer is : My father and asll my ancestors did it
before me."
Jimmy Carter "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"It's a natural progression to seek large number of fish or game, at first,
the largest of the species and finally the most difficult. The last category
can keep a person going forever."
Joan Wulff "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"What is emphatic in angling is made so by the long silences - the
unproductive periods. To the ardent fisherman, progress is toward the kinds of
fishing that are never productive in the sense of blood riots othe
hunting-and-fishing periodicals."
Thomas McGuane "the Longest Silence"
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"The music of angling is ore compelling to me than anything contrived in the
greatest symphony hall."
A. J. McClane "The Fisherman's Guided to Life"
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"The angler is never a has-been. He enjoys a lifetime of participation which
continues through noon, then on into the sunset and even into the eventide of
life."
Charles K Fox "The Fisherman's Guide to life"
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"You may be one of the many who dis over that the pursuit of a game fish with
the fly becomes obsessive."
Silvio Calabi "FlyFishing Forever"
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"Every fishing water has its secrets. A river or a lake is not a dead thing.
It has beauty and wisdom and content. And to yield up these mysteries, it must
be fished with more than hooks."
Zane Grey "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"There is, among hard-core fishermen a conviction that truth, like pre water
and the fish that live in it, is a precious commodity, not to be squandered or
over used."
E Zern "FlyFishing Forever"
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"I have mixed memories of the years I spend behind tackle counters listening
to ideas, opinions, theories, humorous stories, harmless fabrication and
outright lies."
George
F Grant "FlyFishing Forever"
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