Top 9 Quotes by Lee Wulff

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?

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?

Lee Wulff

Kindness, Fishing, Giving

Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

Lee Wulff

Fishing, Games, Trout

Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.

Lee Wulff

May, Release, Fishes

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.

Lee Wulff

Smart, Sea, Fishing

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

Lee Wulff

Boys, Fishing, Tin Cans

Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”

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.

Lee Wulff

Men, Sea, Fishing

Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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.

Lee Wulff

Lying, Lakes, Sea

Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult