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    Default What's your favorite flyfishing quote?

    "If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong." John Gierach ...

    one of my favorites and does anyone recall the exact Gierach quote about the fine line between fishing and standing in a river waving a stick?

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    The fish are always right.
    The fish are always right.

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    When baseball great Ted Williams was asked what he thought about Carl Yastrzemski, his replacement in the Red Sox line-up he replied.

    "I've only got one thing to say about Yaz, Yaz fishes with worms"
    The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
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    "Besides egotism there is in every fisherman a humor, a certain loquaciousness, a friendly levity, an inclination to argument, an inexplicable sense of the pleasure in idling hours along a river, and a peculiar tendency toward exaggeration which he can recognize in his companion, but is rarely capable of seeing in himself."
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    Anything by Ed Zern; here's one of my favorites:

    "A recent survey showed that roughly two-thirds of all fishermen never eat fish. This should surprise nobody. Fish is brain food. People who eat fish have large, well-developed brains. People with large, well-developed brains don't fish. It's that simple." - Ed Zern

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    Rocks don't swim.
    I believe that's one of Lefty's.
    Where you go is less important than how you take the steps.
    Fish with a Friend,
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    Quote Originally Posted by dudley View Post
    When baseball great Ted Williams was asked what he thought about Carl Yastrzemski, his replacement in the Red Sox line-up he replied.

    "I've only got one thing to say about Yaz, Yaz fishes with worms"
    I love that. Especially about my old Red Sox heroes!
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    I believe it was Mike Lawless that said..."if I'm not going to catch any fish, then I'd rather not catch any fish on flies"
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    Not just for flyfhishing, but good none the less

    "Better to beg forgiveness, than to ask permission" --- Good for the wife.

    Another one good to use when you don't wanna leave the stream

    "In for a penny, in for a pounding"
    ‎"Trust, but verify" - Russian Proverb, as used by Ronald Reagan

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    Mend, darn it, mend!

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