Thanks, Rick. If you'd like to hsndle the JFTD,
QUFD, You have my Git Er Done..
JIMMYD
'Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail wrote:
These are good times to get involved in fly-fishing.
Silvio Calabi in FlyFishing Always
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I normally stagger from the stream not to it.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
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Fly fishers have argued the merits of sparsely versus fully dressed flies
for centuries, and likely will carry it on for as long ss
I resemble that comment Nev :)
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I normally stagger *from* the stream not to it.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
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Fly fishers have
On 8/5/15 11:34 AM, Neville Gosling wrote:
I normally stagger *from* the stream not to it.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
At my age, I just stagger! :-(
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I met Chuck and Sharon over 20 years ago when Chuck was tying here at the FFF
Conclave in Arkansas.I have one of Chucks Flies in my collection. I also had
his signed book before I sold my book collection.Tony
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But to be honest, there are no beginners in fly fishing - just those who are
finding for the first time what they have missed.
David Lee Fly Fishing, a Beginners Guide
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The ancients wrote of the three ages of man, I propose to write of
the three ages of the fisherman.
When he wants to catch all the fish he can.
When he strives to catch the largest fish.
When he studies to catch the most difficult fish he can find,
requiring the greatest skill and most refined
The ancients wrote of the three ages of man, I propose to write of
the three ages of the fisherman.
When he wants to catch all the fish he can.
When he strives to catch the largest fish.
When he studies to catch the most difficult fish he can find,
requiring the greatest skill and most refined
I'm still in stage 1
Rene
On 02/26/2012 10:17 PM, Allan Fish wrote:
The ancients wrote of the three ages of man, I propose to write of
the three ages of the fisherman.
When he wants to catch all the fish he can.
When he strives to catch the largest fish.
When he studies to catch the most
To thoroughly enjoy fly fishing you need to get totally
immersed every once in a while.©
Jimmy D Moore
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Hard-hitting flashing fellows these, bred and reared in no protected
pond, but
in the cold crystal mountain waters. Any angler who has matched his
skill with
one of Nature's trout and then with the pampered stall-fed darlings of the
intensively stocked preserve, need not be told the difference
Fly fishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is,
and that everyone is getting more than their share.
Henry Kanemoto
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Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
Ed Zern
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When the going gets rough, go out and buy yourself a really nice fly
rod. When it gets rougher, buy a nice reel to go with it. Rougher still
? Buy yourself a pontoon boat or drift boat. Still rougher? Book a trip
to Kamchatka without telling your wife. Now, my good buddy, you're FIXIN
to find
Fish are, of course, indispensable to the angler. They give him an
excuse for fishing and justify the fly rod without which he would be a
mere vagrant. But the average fisherman's average catch doesn't even
begin to justify, as fish, its cost in work, time, and money. The true
worth of
By the time I had turned thirty, I'd realized two important things.
One, I had to fish. Two, I had to work for a living.
Mallory Burton
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Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to flying a kite on a
blustery day. The
more line you let out, the more trouble you're going to have getting it
back. ©
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Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day this morning?
I sent two different quotes so as to make up for not ending one earlier.Neither of
them have yet hit my mailbox.If you get the quote, please let me know.
Twilight Zone, again.
Thanks,
JIM
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Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day this
morning?
I sent two different quotes so
I got them both.
J
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Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive
I got them both as well
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Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day
this morning? I sent two different quotes so as to make up for not ending
one earlier.Neither of them have yet hit my
got both
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Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the day
this morning
On 1/27/2012 11:25 AM, Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
Looks like De Somma is the only VFB'er to receive the Quote for the
day this morning? I sent two different quotes so as to make up for not
ending one earlier.Neither of them have yet hit my mailbox.If you get
the quote, please let me know.
Twilight
When your fly rod breaks and your fly box is bare, it's time to quit
fishing.
Go sit in your chair. Light up your pipe. Pour some JD and drink till
you're ripe.
Don't worry about your rod and your flies. Just sit with your buddies
and tell fishing lies.
Jimmy D. Moore
The End of the Day
Jimmy D. Moore
1. You wade in your brogans and do it bare legged.
2. Your flies are made from corn silk. If you don't catch anything, you
can at least smoke them.
3. You've mounted your Orvis Battenkill on a cane
pole.
4. You wear a Hawaiian flower-de shirt on the
He slept with his fly rod standing in the corner next to his bed. He didn't bother taking off his shirt and pants. His vest on the bed post and his wading boots were placed where he could swing off the bed, and like a fireman ram his feet into them. His fishing hat was by his pillow. The only
Put backing on your line; even if you never use it. It helps you dream.
Jimmy D Moore
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,author Moon Holler Misfits
Fishing Hunting Club, Member, TOWA, Past VP Guadalupe
River Trout Unlimited,
I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every
chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the
taste of it out of my mouth.
Ed Zern
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JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,author Moon Holler
Ordinarily the man accustomed to a 9-foot fly rod would reduce to one
about 7 feet long and feel that he was equipped for working a small
brook. This, I beg to point out, is only the palest concession to that
kind of angling. If we chop 4 feet off that, however, the remaining 3
foot length
The farther you travel to fish, the worse the fishing will be. However, it will improve immediately after you leave to return home, thus the old saying: The fishing is always better the day before you get there and the day after you leave.
Will Rogers
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This is one of my more popular poems. It can also
be used as a quote. If you'd like me to post more
of my fly fishing poems, let me know. All are 10
guaranteed to make you laugh.
Have a Goodun.
JIMMYD
A FLY TYING FANATIC !
Cotton balls, wine corks, tow sacks, I save'em all.
Craft beads,
Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a
worm-fishrman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman.
For which we should all be eternally grateful.
Ed Zern How To Tell Fish From Fishermen (1947)
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I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had
wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and
motoring and marriage, and had in his way postponed his intiation to
trout fishing far too long!
Arthur Ransome On Giving Advice To Beginners [1929
. .
Jimmy:
Love those quotes from Arthur Ransome!
Neville (Nev) Gosling
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MORE TO COME.
Neville Gosling wrote:
Jimmy:
Love those quotes from Arthur Ransome!
Neville (Nev) Gosling
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It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever
kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the
part of the trout to take to this method. . . . No sportsman however,
will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.
Charles Dudley
The recollection of what has been and the anticipation of what is to be; the quiet discourse of men with like tastes, of past successes and of anticipated triumphs; reminiscences of river and lake and forest and camp-fire, make up a series of prospective and retrospective pleasures akin to those
From time to time, when I miss a day or two, I'll throw in some extra
quotes. Hope you don't
mind.
Fishing books, lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like
poetry. We do not think of them as books but as people. They are our
companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they
] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman
as the ability to read a defense is to a
NFL Quarterback.
Jimmy D Moore
Copyright 2003
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Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to flying a kite on a
blustery day. The more line you let out, the more trouble you're going
to have getting it back.
Jimmy D Moore
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These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't
get close enough to present it.
Dick Blaylock
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Fishing Hunting Club, Member, TOWA, Past VP
Fish are, of course, indispensable to the angler. They give him an
excuse for fishing and justify the fly rod without which he would be a
mere vagrant. But the average fisherman's average catch doesn't even
begin to justify, as fish, its cost in work, time, and money. The true
worth of
Hard-hitting flashing fellows these, bred and reared in no protected
pond, but in the cold crystal mountain waters. Any angler who has
matched his skill with one of Nature's trout and then with the pampered
stall-fed darlings of the intensively stocked preserve, need not be told
the difference
For the supreme test of a fisherman is not how many fish he has caught,
not even how he has caught them, but what he has caught when he has
caught no fish.
Unknown
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If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing}
you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with
rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential
element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be
quarried in England
When if chance or hunger's powerful sway directs the roving trout this
fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles
the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy
rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
John Gay
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If all the fish in the world suddenly disappeared, I know of many fly
tyers who would go right on tying flies as if nothing had happened,
myself included!
Jimmy D. Moore, Feb. 2004
SORRY TO BE SO LATE. LOW ON BRAIN CELLS. :-P
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Last Sunday I fished up a certain river most of the day and through my
supernal skill and encyclopedic knowledge of angling was able to take a
dozen brook trout. If I had kept them I would have had the makings of a
nice can of sardines.
Sparse Grey Hackle
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An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noislessly along the
shoreline of a bass lake at one-half to two-thirds of a mile an hour -
the proper speed for fly-rod fishing with bass bugs - is not an outboard
motor, but a
cute jimmy d cute
dave
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Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:29 AM
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An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noislessly
An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noislessly along
the shoreline of a bass lake at one-half to two-thirds of a mile an
hour - the proper speed for fly-rod fishing with bass bugs - is not
an outboard motor, but a
You are braver than me. I would fear not only for the pan but for future
reminders that would hurt worse.
Mike
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Allan Fish afi...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
grounds, but what one needs for propelling
I can relate to this personally, for years I paddled the canoe while my
husband Jerry fly fished. I took up tying in '95 to save $$ as he like
to fish the Rangley streamers that sold for a whole 1.95 at the time.
Then one day in 1997 I sold 3 houses in Lowell,MA called a Triple hat
trick,
Fishing books, lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like
poetryWe do not think of them as books but as friends. They are our
companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us
and what a pleasant company they are.
Arthur Ransome The Fisherman's Library [1959]
The one great ingredient in successful fly fishing is patience.
The man whose fly is always on the water has the best chance.
There is always a chance of a fish or two, no matter how hopeless
it looks. You never know what may happen in fly fishing.
Francis Francis (1862)
: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Trout fishing is always the best in the hardest to reach places, those with
the steepest, crookedest, bumpiest, narrowest roads, or no roads at all. That's
also where the bugs are thickest, but who cares about roads or bugs when you
can catch big trout all day! Rough roads
My wife said I have so many fly rods and reels
that I cannot possibly use them all. My reply
was that I had rods and reels to fish, rods
and reels to tinker with and then my fine
crafted rods and reels to fondle and admire,
while dreaming of trout fishing during the
cold winter months. You
Choose your fly fishing friends wisely. They can
have an effect on how many and the size of the trout
you catch. Fly fishers who spend a lot of time fishing
together will unconciously adopt some of the other's
mannerisms, choice of flies and casting techniques
over time. Surrounding yourself
Trout fishing is always the best in the
hardest to reach places, those with the
steepest, crookedest, bumpiest, narrowest
roads, or no roads at all. That's also
where the bugs are thickest, but who cares
about roads or bugs when you can catch big
trout all day! Rough roads, bugs and good
Trout fishing is always the best in the
hardest to reach places, those with the
steepest, crookedest, bumpiest, narrowest
roads, or no roads at all. That's also
where the bugs are thickest, but who cares
about roads or bugs when you can catch big
trout all day! Rough roads, bugs and good
fishing
They say that to catch brown trout you have
to be near invisible. I tried that on the
Cimarron in 1999. It worked so well that a
large brown bear never saw me as he snatched
my fish from the end of my tippet.
Jimmy D. Moore, 1999
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Oh he saw you, just wasn't into junk food.
DR,
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They say that to catch brown trout you have
to be near invisible. I tried
Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to
flying a kite on a blustery day. The more line
you let out, the more trouble you're going to
have getting it back.
Jimmy D Moore
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There are eight species of rabbits in the MONTANA
the Eastern Cottontail, Mountain Cottontail,
Desert Cottontail, Snowshoe Hare, White-tailed
Jack Rabbit, Black-tailed Jack Rabbit, Pygmy
Rabbit, and the American Pika. However, I've
been told that during trout season, fly
fishermen outnumber
The response was great. All positive. So - here's the
first one. Hope you enjoy it. LOL
“Fishing too light a fly line is like trying to
cram a wet noodle up a wildcat’s ass.”
Jimmy D. Moore
2000
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The response was great
Hi Jimmy,
at least you didn't brake your leg or even more valuable parts.
I think we both are now close to 10 years on the list, and during this
time frame you had a couple of accidents. Some broken legs, some issues
with Callico, the was a story with a woodworking lathe etc. You should
really be
Well, now, there, then Rene. Let's recap my accidents. LOL. Busted
lip - block of wood from wood lathe
Broken leg - wading the Gunnison. Torn Posterior foot ligament - big
ligament on bottom of foot from
heel to toe. Walking barefoot on back porch. No issues with Calico.
Was his brother
Jimmy,
You and your poor feet! You're going to develope a defeetist attitude.
Buggs
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Sorry
Jimmy,
You and your poor feet! You're going to develope a defeetist attitude.
G-R-O-A-N!!
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To: Virtual Fly Box vfb-mail@googlegroups.com, Fly Fishing World
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Date: Friday, July 9, 2010, 8:38 AM
Sorry about missing
Under the conditions then prevailing - the thermometer recording 97
degrees in the shade, the stream at its lowest point, and the
temperature of the water very high - I really believe that the only
chance he might have had would have been with a very 'wet' Mint Julep.
George M. L. La Branche
In the first place, sheer lightness in a rod doesn't necessarily mean
less effort. The difference between a two ounce rod and a longer five
ounce model in ratio to the angler's total weight on the scales is about
the same as drinking half a tumbler full of water or going thirsty.
Fly-fishing
Handling a big trout in swift water is akin to flying a kite on a blustery day. The more line you let out, the more trouble you're going to have getting it back.
Jimmy D Moore
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... standing in a cool stream with a mountain range or a meadow nearby, fly rod in hand and cigar in mouth, flask in my hip pocket, is the way God meant mankind to live.
Jon Margolis and Jeff MacNelly
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
The line must always be fastened securely to the shaft of the spool. If you
forget once and a fish strips the reel naked, you deserve several kicks. If you
forget a second time, you are not worth kicking!
Eric Taverner John Moore Thoughts (1949
LOL! I love this one!
Wayne
On Tue Jun 29th, 2010 4:48 PM EDT LESTER BELL wrote:
Well said.
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . .
George M.L. LaBranche The Dry Fly And Fast Water [1914
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My two cents:
His comment doesn't make any sense.
1. He says during the time period (past two decades) we have
So?
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Of Jimmy D. Moore
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:18 AM
To: Virtual Fly Box; Fly Fishing World; Hill Country Fly Fishers
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
There's more B.S. in fly fishing than
Your Soap Box is much taller than you !
JD
Don Ordes wrote:
My two cents:
His comment doesn't make any sense.
1. He says during the time period (past two decades) we have a
proliferation in new tying materials
2. But then he says Truth to be told there seems to be little that
is
Neville- see my comments by yours
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Don O:
See my comments below:-
Neville (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver,
B.C. Canada
Good one Jimmy!
When if chance or hunger's powerful sway
directs the roving trout this fatal way,
He greedily sucks in the twining bait,
And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.
Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!
How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
John Gay
These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't
get close enough to present it.
Dick Blalock
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Fishing Hunting Club, Member, TOWA, Past VP
BTDT
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Of Jimmy D. Moore
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 10:53 AM
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
These brook trout will strike any fly you present
;
hillcountryflyfish...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't get
close enough to present it.
Dick Blalock
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Sorry about the lack of QFTD's for last few days, but I had the rare
opportunity to take my
middle son and my two twin grandkids fishing on Lake Waco. My bass boat
ain't that little,
but with two ten-year olds waving Zebco 202's around with spinnerbaits
attached, all I did
was sit in the
As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow.
Ray Bergman Trout
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Or not paying attentionJ
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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:01 AM
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
As far as I can ascertain
The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their walls with stuffed barbells.
Ed Zern How To Tell Fish From Fishermen [1947]
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
I FISH... because trout do not lie or cheat or cannot be bought or bribed or
impressed by power, but respond only to quietism and humility and endless
patience.
John Volker, Retired Michigan Supreme Court Justice
I FISH... because trout do not lie or cheat or cannot be bought or
bribed or impressed by power, but respond only to quietism and humility
and endless patience.
John Volker, Retired Michigan Supreme Court Justice
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Well, there’s @ least one brown in Lake Taneycomo that cheats…
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Unpacking one's kit is like meeting old friends. Every marred fly, every frayed leader, every well-worn tip and line and reel, revives pleasant memories of river, pool or camp-fire, of rise, or strike, or struggle, only less real than the reality itself, for only itself can be its parallel.
Love affairs, viewed from the sancturay of middle age and bittersweet
memory, are almost impossible to document, because human emotion is a
merciful thing. It is different with trout. Trout are absolutely unique
in that a man's initial involvement seldom becomes a wry memory
dismissed as
So romantic, Jimmy D
Rodger
Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
" Love affairs, viewed from
the
sancturay of middle age and bittersweet memory, are almost impossible
to
document, because human emotion is a merciful thing. It is different
with
trout. Trout are absolutely unique in that a man's
Ordinarily the man accustomed to a 9-foot fly rod would reduce to one about 7 feet long and feel that he was equipped for working a small brook. This, I beg to point out, is only the palest concession to that kind of angling. If we chop 4 feet off that, however, the remaining 3 foot length will
But if the salmon and trout must be classified as elite in this
mythical social structure then let the black bass be given permanent
status as the working class of American gamefish. He's tough and he
knows it. . .
Pat Smith Old Iron Jaw [1979]
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Fishing simply sent me out of my mind. I could neither think nor talk
of anything else. My mother was so angry with me that she said she
wouldn't let me fish again because I might fall ill from such excitement.
Sergei Aksakov {1791-1859} Memoir Translated by Arthur Ransome
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