Ed Zern quotes
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“People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.”
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“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.”
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“...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.”
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“Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .”
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“Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.”
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“It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.”
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“I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.”
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“Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.”
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“The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells”
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“The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.”
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“I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.”
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“I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.”
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“Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.”
-- Ed Zern
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