Great fishing quotes

Fine quotes from great books put together by a fishing dreamer. May include other fieldsports.

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My top 10 fishing books and why:
A thread:

10. Charles Rangeley-Wilson - Somewhere Else.

Captures the essence of fishing, any type, any where. Some of the chapter names alone warrant an entry. “Ain’t got deet, ain’t got shit” is up there with my favourite chapter names.

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Just been reminded of this; “ Any fool can make money, show me someone who can make a moment.”

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Chris Yates on working: Only work when it rains…go fishing at all other times.
“Any fool can make money, but show me someone who can make a moment”.

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@cns46z @DefraGovUK @ASPaton Still don’t get it do you. A brain 99% evolved and grown through hunter gathering, yet you seek to deny the right & label all animals disturbed. Rather than prohibiting fundamental animal rights, try convincing nature not to exercise them.

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@cns46z @DefraGovUK @ASPaton I’m not sure in death that the motive matters to the deceased, only to those like you who watch on and judge. Woodcock desire food and somewhere to procreate. Nothing else crosses their mind. Blatted by a gun or sparrow hawk; matters not to them; it’s lights out regardless.

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@cns46z @DefraGovUK @ASPaton Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) are frequently cited as one of the world’s most abundant wading birds, with an estimated global population of 10–26 million individuals.

The right to hunt, is an extension of the right to eat. Would you deny a lion its right to hunt?

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@ryanleeball @TrooperSnooks @sussexfarming Interesting, assuming you are factually correct. Milk is a description of a white opaque liquid rather than a name for mammalian baby food. Learn something new every day. I’ll continue to consume it in moderation for enjoyment, cultural and health reasons safe in this knowledge.

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@ryanleeball @TrooperSnooks @sussexfarming Why call it plant based milk? It’s not milk, it’s a stable emulsion of water, oil, and protein derived from ground pulses .

Sensible people don’t call milk an animal based stable emulsion of water, oil, and protein derived from ground pulses.

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Greenwashing by big business (in this case pre-privatisation British Gas) was even a thing back in the 1980s. A charity shop Ted Hughes poetry book.

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Honourable mention 3:

Robert Traver. “Judge” for yourself.

Doesn’t date. Short magical tales.

And THAT epigraph. Wow, a lesson in life in half a page.

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My top 10 fishing books and why:
A thread:

10. Charles Rangeley-Wilson - Somewhere Else.

Captures the essence of fishing, any type, any where. Some of the chapter names alone warrant an entry. “Ain’t got deet, ain’t got shit” is up there with my favourite chapter names.

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Honourable mention 1:

Anything by Jon Beer. Invariably a travelogue story hung off a random thought (often not fishing related). Snails, OFSTED, Boy Scout trips are a great startingpoints to a fishy tail.

Peak mid 1990s Trout & Salmon era writer.

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Honourable mention 2:

Bruce Sandison. Another T&S great. As Scottish as haggis, bagpipes, whisky. Comforting tales of family, friends and big, gruff, ginger bearded ghillies. Great.

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It’s been a while since I picked up a new book (new to me at least). Great name, let’s see if it’s great writing…

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How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like.

Edward Abbey

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@LeonardoRojasRL So sad to hear of his passing. A great musician and also part of the Fly Culture team.

[Fishingmagic @Fishingmagic1]

This is why I don’t bother on the bigger tides, rods been in for only 15 mins and completely washing lined with crap and plastic and yes they are female jam rags stuck on the line. The government need bringing acount for this it’s criminal for fish to live in this.

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Robert Redford

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A K. RIP

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I understand we lost AK Best today. AK was an integral part of Gierach’s tales, especially in the early days. AK was also an accomplished writer himself, as well as pioneering fly tyer. We’ve lost some absolute legends in the last year.

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Sublime and touching ending. “I didn’t notice that a little of the spring had gone out of his step until it was back.”
(From Dances With Trout)

[David Blackett @idbusa]

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

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“...the right to hunt is an extension of the right to eat…”

Christopher Camuto again.