Lee Wulff famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?
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Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
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Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
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The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.
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Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.
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...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.
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It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures...
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Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.
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There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.
-- Lee Wulff
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
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A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
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The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
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Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
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The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.
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