When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.
The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.