• Like hatches, most things in life occur in cycles. If you know the cycles you will be successful
• Life is more than a can of worms but is less than a Royal Coachman.

• Even beautiful things sometimes have a barbed hook.
• Trout have shown me that you can get into trouble by opening your mouth.
• Flies do not make very good earrings, particularly if you have never had your ears pierced.
• De-barb your fly before trying it on as an earring or catching a fish you intend to release.
• Don't judge a fisherman by the size of his rod.
• Never criticize anything prepared by the camp cook unless you are willing and able to take over his job.
• Don't plan your evening meal around fish that you haven't yet caught.
• Those who spit, piss or cast into the wind are usually wet behind the ears.
• Often the Big Fish are just a dead weight and it is the middle management fish that will fight hardest.
• Swarming and mating in flight is not all that it is cracked up to be.
• If you consider the landing of a fish as a 'bonus', then you will always enjoy fishing. If what you are trying isn't working, then try something else.
• If you will need something while fly fishing, then don't keep it in your fishing vest.
• Removing the barb doesn't decrease your effectiveness.
• If you are observant it will improve your success as well as your enjoyment of the sport.
• It takes more than expensive equipment to be proficient at what you are doing.
• The size of a fish is directly proportional to his intelligence and inversely proportional to his killer instincts.
• The joy of flyfishing is lost when you have a beer can in one hand and your rod in the other.
• Fly fishers will share their knowledge, flies and gear but never their secret fishing lake.
• One good vise is enough for any fly tier.
• If you rock the boat or make waves, expect the skittish fish to scatter.
• Don't wade into chest deep waters if you are only wearing hip waders.
• A bad day of flyfishing is better than a good day at work.
• Don't put any foreign materials into the lake except your anchor and your fly.
• Unless you enjoy fishing in a crowd don't advertise when the fishing is good.
• A wind knot is a casting knot made when there were no witnesses.
• The heavy-handed fisherman and his fish are soon parted.
• Our trout have marvelous growth rates. They double in size each time the story of their catch is retold.
• About 20% of the fishermen catch about 80% of the fish.
• What causes stress is different for fish than it is for people but the reactions are often the same.
• Large fish establish and protect a territory leaving the smaller fish to school and compete with each other.
• The most dangerous time for a fish is when the demand for aquatic food is high and the supply is low.
• A good imitation or a good attractor is often just as good a selling point as the real thing.
• The boy who learns to fish will become a better man because of it.

© 1996 - 2009 Interactive Broadcasting Corporation