32 Quotes by John Gierach

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    Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

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    A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod will appreciate in value while a new graphite rod will depreciate, but the best thing to do is turn around and say, ¨$9,000.00 for a car? I only paid $500.00 for mine.

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    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.

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    If people don’t occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you’re doing something wrong.

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    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.

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    Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn’t exist, but if some people have them, then you’d better have one, too, just in case.

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    The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

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    Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

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    Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

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