Arnold Gingrich Quotes

#1. Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

Arnold Gingrich

#2. On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Arnold Gingrich

#3. The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

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#4. Water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

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#5. Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

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#6. Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

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#7. I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

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#8. A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

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#9. About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

Arnold Gingrich