Theodore Gordon quotes
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“It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.”
-- Theodore GordonSource : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
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“The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.”
-- Theodore GordonSource : Theodore Gordon, Paul Schullery (2007). “Theodore Gordon on Trout: Talks and Tales from a Great American Angler”, p.52, Stackpole Books
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“The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.”
-- Theodore GordonSource : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
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“Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.”
-- Theodore GordonSource : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
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“The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.”
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“If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.”
-- Theodore GordonSource : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
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