Top 27 John Gierach Fishing Quotes
#1. I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.
Robert Lansing
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Saying of the Prophet
Monkishness
No monkery in Islam.
Idries Shah
#5. 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
#6. I'm only one kill away from Command Assassin. Be a damn shame for that kill to be you (Darion)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.
John Gierach
#8. The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.
John Gierach
#9. Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.
Alfonso Cuaron
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.
Ehud Barak
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.
John Gierach
#17. Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.
John Gierach
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.
John Gierach
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.
Robin Lee
#27. 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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