Quotes About Trout

Brook trout are easy to fool, and are found in places on most rivers and streams that are easily reached: big pools, soft riffles, along undercuts, and under overhanging trees. Mostly though, they are found in soft, deep water, tend to feed lower down on the water column, and are less likely to take surface flies.

Mike went fishing one day, but at the end he had not caught a single fish. On the way back home, he stopped at a fish store. "I want to buy three trout, please," he said to the owner. "But instead of putting them in a bag, can you throw them to me?" "Throw them? Why do you want me to do that?" the owner asked. Mike replied, "So I can tell everyone that I caught three fish!

His own eyes were soft and dreamy, cloudy as a trout pool in the rain.

To hell with the Red Flower," I muttered. I seized one of the trout by the tail, ran forward, and belted the bear across the nose with it as hard as I could.

We camped for the night in a hollow near a good-sized creek—one big enough for trout. Jamie and Ian waded into this with enthusiasm, harrying the finny denizens with whippy rods cut from black willow.

Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.

Trout are among those creatures who are one hell of a lot prettier than they need to be. They can get you to wondering about the hidden workings of reality.

While you're at it, get that straight in your own head, too. You want peace, quiet, wildlife, scenery, wild trout, and you don't expect miracles

Lake McDonald, full of brisk trout, is in the heart of this forest, and Avalanche Lake is ten miles above McDonald, at the feet of a group of glacier-laden mountains. Give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from the sum of your life.

Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy

Your river is gorgeous." I leaned through a cloud of clean-smelling hair tonic to kiss his cheek. "It was gleaming with fish when we crossed it." "Glad you're keen on the trout.

Dusk was moving over the water with a stillness that turned half the world to glass. The wall of mountains had gone to shadow as had the reflections at their feet. In the stillness the rings of rising trout appeared like raindrops. Slowly, in silence, the dark water tilted away from the remaining daylight.