You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
Fly-fishing is really addictive.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.