Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 03 September 2010 10:54
"To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and arching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction." - (Jim Slinsky)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 02 September 2010 15:55
"I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there." - (Robert Altman)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 28 August 2010 15:55
"Not only is bowhunting fun and a real challenge, but it is good for you. The exercise in the fresh air, the chance to get away from everyday pressures and problems, a return to the basic relationships between man and his environment." - (Fred Bear)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:40
"If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business." - (Sparse Grey Hackle)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:31
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - (Doug Larson)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Wednesday, 25 August 2010 18:46
"Scouting is essential to harvesting that big buck. A farmer wouldn't plant his best seed without first checking the soil!" - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 20 August 2010 15:34
"Fishing is a...discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish " - (Herbert Hoover)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 20 August 2010 15:33
"My buddies always tell me I'm lucky in the field. I laugh and repeat the old saying my mom would recite, "Luck is at the side of the able navigator." - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Sunday, 15 August 2010 15:57
"Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths." - (unknown)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Wednesday, 04 August 2010 11:00
"If you know in your gut that he is in there, play the wind and make you move. If you sit and wait and never make your move , you will regret it when he eludes you again." - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 31 July 2010 17:05
"Settling into my tree stand on opening morning of bow season is a feeling only known to those who know." - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:44
"Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job." - (Paul Schullery)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:37
"I have solved the toughest issues while on stand. I have had in the present out of body moments while on stand. I have from time to time sat without a thought on stand. Once fall comes I belong on stand." - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 24 July 2010 18:26
"Whether Bow Hunting or locating a store, its location, location, location." - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 23 July 2010 19:36
"There is a hunter in us all. When you let it out, your life will make more sense." - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Wednesday, 21 July 2010 19:59
"Creeping through the woods in a fresh frost before sunrise charges my soul in an unexplainable way." - (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Sunday, 27 June 2010 09:44
"My wife accuses me of spending all of my time hunting. This is simply not true and only shows how unfair a woman can be. I also fish." - (John Weiss)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 26 June 2010 18:43
"Just as in cooking there's no such thing as a little garlic, in fishing there's no such thing as a little drag." - (H.G. Tapply the sportsman notebook)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:21
"I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water." - (William Tapply)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:46
"The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able." - (Sparse Grey Hackle)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 19 June 2010 22:05
"It's hard to have enough tree stands and impossible to have too many." - (John Eggenberger)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:50
"I dream of the day when my son can join me in the woods on a hunt. I will pass on all that I have learned to him, just like my father did to me. To me, this defines tradition which can survive for endless generations as long as we do our part." (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:44
"To me the woods are the greatest thing to humble a man that I know of. The woods have no predisposed thoughts, no prejudices, no favoritism, but rather in many ways they remind us daily of just how small we really are." (Anonymous)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:41
"Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip." - (John Gierach)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:03
"Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman." - (Herbert Hoover)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Sunday, 13 June 2010 16:53
"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned." - (Izaak Walton)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:19
"In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen." - (Grover Cleveland)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Tuesday, 08 June 2010 16:35
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." - (Vince Lombardi)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 03 June 2010 22:36
"I look into... my fly box, and think about all the elements I should consider in choosing the perfect fly: water temperature, what stage of development the bugs are in, what the fish are eating right now. Then I remember what a guide told me: 'N (Allison Moir)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:52
"Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man." - George Wherry (George Wherry)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:59
"There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never". - (Lord Edward Grey)
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home." - (Roderick Haig- Brown)
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story." - (Linda Hogan)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 13 May 2010 11:09
"One evening I was awakened from a deep sleep by a weird noise coming from my husband, only to find out he was dreaming and he was a Dry Fly. I suspected then, and now realize, his dreams are not made up of wild crazy women, only episodes of his days (Jan Thousand)
"Beyond every bend in a stream lies a new fishing challenge, for no pool, riffle or rapids is just like the previous one" - Dick Stienberg (Dick Stienberg)
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in" - (Heraclitus)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 30 April 2010 23:31
"There is a passion to turkey hunting that is hard to describe unless you've been out there as the woods have woken up. I know turkey hunters who have been waiting for this day since last May." - (Rod Slings)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:50
"Fishing too long a fly rod on a small trout stream is like driving a greyhound bus down a deer trail." - (Jimmy D. Moore)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:39
"There's no taking trout with dry breeches." - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 23 April 2010 02:35
"Anglers are not born, they are made by circumstances, and sometimes it takes a long time to get the right circumstances together." - (John W. Randolph)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 23 April 2010 02:34
"Casting is not the end of learning. In fact, it is only the beginning." - (John W. Randolph)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 23 April 2010 02:32
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope." - (John Buchan)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Friday, 23 April 2010 02:30
"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish." - (John Ruskin)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 17 April 2010 19:55
"I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily and without regret." - (Roderick Haig- Brown)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 17 April 2010 19:53
"The ability to read a trout stream is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL quarterback." - (Jimmy D. Moore)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 17 April 2010 19:51
"If a man fishes hard, what is he going to do easy?" - (Roy Blount, Jr.)
Posted by: wvrifleman - Saturday, 17 April 2010 19:49
"Books can't make you a good fisherman, but they can make you a better one." - (Fisherman's Saying)
