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On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
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The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.
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A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
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...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.
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Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.
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There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.
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I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
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Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.