Top 49 Quotes About Trout Fishing
#1. The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal.
Richard Brautigan
#2. There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.
John D. Voelker
#3. 'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.
Will C. Barnes
#4. Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.
John Gierach
#5. Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
Edward Abbey
#6. Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.
Cornelia Parker
#7. I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
Linda Hamilton
#8. I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.
Richard Brautigan
#9. 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
#10. The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.
John Gierach
#11. Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.
John D. Voelker
#13. If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
Zane Grey
#14. What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?
Nash Buckingham
#15. One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.
John D. Voelker
#16. And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Lord Byron
#17. A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.
Corey Ford
#18. O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Izaak Walton
#19. Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.
Charles Kuralt
#20. Spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout.
Tom Sutcliffe
#21. I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling ...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#22. A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
Arnold Gingrich
#24. Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
Zane Grey
#25. 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.
Charles Dudley Warner
#26. The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ...
Robert Burns
#27. During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders
John D. Voelker
#28. It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
William Butler Yeats
#29. What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!
Thaddeus Norris
#30. On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
Arnold Gingrich
#31. Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.
Thomas McGuane
#32. The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?
Lee Wulff
#33. The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.
Theodore Gordon
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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 ... Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.
Theodore Gordon
#37. There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.
Howard Frank Mosher
#38. Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
James M. Barrie
#39. It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
George Eliot
#40. Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.
John Gierach
#41. My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.
Will Hobbs
#42. Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
Lee Wulff
#43. I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.
Ed Weeks
#44. Water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.
Arnold Gingrich
#45. In this ever changing world, there are few things that have remained constant for me. The chance of hooking a nice trout still excites and thrills me to this day ... just as it did when I was a kid. I like that!
M.A. Bookout
#48. When if or 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
#49. There are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.
Ed Zern
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