Fly Fishing Sage Gifts

Mr Briggs's Pleasures of Fishing - No. VIII

'Boy, the fish are really biting today, aren't they, Fred?'

'Unbelievable: My cowboy expects me to drop everything and come running when he whistles...'

'Yessir, Ben us fly fisherman answer to a higher calling.'

Fly Fishing

"For the last time, I’m not Bigfoot — I’m Larry from Vermont!"

He can identify a fly taken by a trout at fifty yards range.

Fishermen dread the spot where the lures hang heavy from the trees like Spanish moss.

'Ed missed a nice trout in that hole last week. He takes everything personally.'

The Games Man: He spends many hours studying minute aquatic flies...which his trout very rarely eat.

Of pitting his own wits against their natural cunning

Fishing direction sign.

One way only.

'Let's see. One dozen red wigglers, two dozen nightcrawlers,three dozen crickets. Want flies with that?'

The Wet Fly Fisherman: He rarely sees his fish until he has hooked it.

The Wet Fly Fisherman: He is less vain about his appearance.

John Barth wrote "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." That he did, little buddy. But what if a person spends most of his life watching tv, films, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc? What if my -- I mean, this person's -- life story is watching other people's life stories? Does that make other people the hero of this person's story? Sometimes I don't know where I end and Kanye begins. That'd be somewhere around Kim Kardashian.

Ice Fly-Fishing with Doug

"Only caught one, eh."

Fumes from furniture

I see you caught the fish, but the boat got away!

'Leader shy and angler wise I can put up with - it's the darn insolence that bothers me.'

'We're back. So how was your summer?'

'Honey, it's your worms of the month delivery!'

Just think of meditation as "mental floss." (Published previously on 3/17/2006.)

"Ralph - you'd play better golf if you had your eyes checked."

'I'll tell her all about this when she gets home.'

'On to the office again?' - 'No, my pro.'

The chairman's boat springs a leak: 'Just keep bailing and never mind the wisecracks.'

The Wet Fly Man is a more active creature.

"You bet I had it mounted, it gave me the best fight of my life."

'Keep a tight line, Ben, keep a tight line!'

"Read me back the minutes from the last dip."

"I've done a lot of soul searching, and I've come to the conclusion that I should be thinking less about money and more about naked women."

'How are they biting?'