quotes about Trout
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A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.
-- Bryce Harper -
My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
-- E. LockhartSource : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.19, Delacorte Press
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The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.
-- Gordon MacQuarrie -
There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.
-- Howard Frank MosherSource : Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
-- Izaak WaltonSource : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
-- James M. Barrie -
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I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout.
-- Joan RiversSource : 25 of Joan Rivers' best jokes, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2014.
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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
-- John Cheever -
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.
-- John Gierach -
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.
-- John GierachSource : John Gierach (1989). “Fly Fishing Small Streams”, p.31, Stackpole Books
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If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.
-- John Gierach -
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!
-- John Wolcot -
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
-- Joseph Monninger -
I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.
-- Jujubee -
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What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?
-- Nash Buckingham -
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.
-- Philip Jose Farmer -
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
-- Richard BrautiganSource : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk -
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If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.
-- Matt Kemp