Quote by George Herbert
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. - George Herbert

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. – George Herbert

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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. – George Herbert

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Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. – Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946

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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. – Herbert Hoover

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All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. – Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck

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