Patrick F. McManus famous quotes

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Fishing #Fans #Fly Fishing

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Men #Fishing #Long

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Tourists #Insects #Term

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Fishing #Taste #Salmon

Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Winter #Men #Sea

The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Rocks #Shoes #Two

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Rain #Fishing #Two

He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Army #Thinking #Rivers

I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it pleases. My life follows it, like a puppy after an untrained bird dog. Come night, my life shows up, usually covered with mud and full of stickers, exhausted but grinning happily. My time never returns.
-- Patrick F. McManus

#Dog #Book #Night

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.