THE LITTLE BOOK OF FISHER QUOTES

"Unquestionable technological research, unequivocal strategy,
Impeccable design and precise implementation are prerequisites to the successful fly-fisher… Welcome to my world."
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"Show me a fly-fisher in a specialist fly-fishing store
and I’ll show you a baby in a candy store."
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"Find a specialist fly-fishing store and you’ve found a friend for life."
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"Sheltered lies from hidden foes, feeding lies in self-service cues, but find a prime lie and you’ve paid your dues."
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"Fish sleep in watery lairs; fly-fishers sleep in misty dreams of tomorrows catch, but for eternity the water that feeds them never sleeps."
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"For those who love to fly-fish and those who would like to try,
waters await you where the fish rise to flies."
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"Woolly Buggers in green and black, Walkers Killer’s with deadly red underbelly and delicious Mr’s Simpson’s all decked out in green delicately sipping Whiskey’s with burnt orange wings. Followed by a little Green Grub and a Blue Dun Quill or a Parachute Caddis and don’t forget Pearly May and a host of lethal Nymph’s…Irresistible flies, that’s what they are."
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"When time stands still and in the water reflects the silver ripples of rising fish, you are at peace in the sweet silence of content."
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"Unexpectedly, the sun beaten copper water erupted as two kilograms of frustrated rainbow trout atomised the air into a shower of golden glob lets, and then in the wonder of the silence that follows only the memory and the slack of my line remains."
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"Show me a fly-fisher who has not fished awhile
and I’ll give him a fish transfusion."
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"The wily psyche of the fish and the living waters they inhabit are a god given homeopathic gift to be shared by all who seek refuge and healing, through the fine art of fly-fishing, from modern malaise and stress."
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"It’s a wonderfully thing fly-fishing, as the line curls out across the water your brain immediately down loads a fly-fishing software package that automatically synchronises your muscles to the action of the rod and fly-line freeing the mind to explore all sorts of other possibilities."
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"Fly-fishing, it’s so demonstrable and yet so intricate and focussed
it continuously defies the inextricable rules that define it;
always seeking new ways, other ideas in order to
conquer the quarry we so desperately want to outwit."
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"The fish once landed needed a trout paramedic. It was pretty much stressed and needed mouth to mouth resuscitation."

"Dead fish-kissing is a definite art, and if performed correctly, adds another dimension to the appreciation and love of fish and fishing."
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"You had to be a gynaecologist to fish that creek."
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"Three acacia, two pine, five assorted fences, one cow, and a barbed hook through the ear; no fish."
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"When the mountain softly cries the fish leap for joy."
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"The old trout sipped Whiskey, then spat it out, and then in soulful contemplation of the aftertaste, eagerly sipped once more and fell trapped to the mortal sting of the Whiskey in the lip.
The old trout did but sadly, never sip Whiskey again."
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ALL QUOTES BY ALAN BUCHAN