6 Quotes by Theodore Gordon

It is the constant - or inconstant - change, the infinite variety in fly fishing that binds us fast. It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. -Theodore Gordon [1914]

Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.