Jack Ohman famous quotes

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
-- Jack Ohman

#Reading #Glasses #Fishing

I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.
-- Jack Ohman

#Eggs #Ties #Insane

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.
-- Jack Ohman

#Ideas #Terrorism #Structure

Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.
-- Jack Ohman

#Rivers #Lakes #Sea

I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.
-- Jack Ohman

#Lakes #Sea #Fishing

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

I like to look at the glass half full.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.