Top 9 Quotes by Paul Schullery

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Jobs, Lakes, Sea

Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Paul Schullery

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

Paul Schullery

Fishing, Quests, Wonder

Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

Paul Schullery

Mean, Rivers, Lakes

Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.154, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.

Paul Schullery

Believe, Sea, Fishing

Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story.

Paul Schullery

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.21, UNM Press

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

Paul Schullery

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.126, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

Paul Schullery

Fishing, Rivers, Issues