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Theodore Gordon Quotes

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

Theodore Gordon
Sports, Years, Fishing
Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

Theodore Gordon
Past, Sea, Fishing
Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

Theodore Gordon
Real, Air, Fishing
Theodore Gordon, Paul Schullery (2007). “Theodore Gordon on Trout: Talks and Tales from a Great American Angler”, p.52, Stackpole Books

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

Theodore Gordon
Lakes, Sea, Fishing
Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

Theodore Gordon
Conceited, Lakes, Sea
Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

Theodore Gordon
Boys, Lakes, Sea

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