Lee Wulff Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?”
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult
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“Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.”
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult
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“Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?”
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”
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“The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.”
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“Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.”
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“...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.”
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press
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“It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures...”
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press
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“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult
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“There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.”
-- Lee WulffSource : Lee Wulff (1952). “New handbook of freshwater fishing”
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“A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.”
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“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
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“You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.”
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“Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.”
Source : Source: articles.latimes.com
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“In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.”
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