Trout Bum Quotes

“A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod will appreciate in value while a new graphite rod will depreciate, but the best thing to do is turn around and say, ¨$9,000.00 for a car? I only paid $500.00 for mine.”
― John Gierach, Trout Bum

“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.”
― John Gierach, Trout Bum

“There are people in my life who sometimes worry about me when I go off into the fields and streams, not realizing that the country is a calm, gracious, forgiving place and that the real dangers are found in the civilization you have to pass through to get there. When”
― John Gierach, Trout Bum

“Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America”
― John Gierach, Trout Bum

“Dave Hughes, in his fine book An Angler’s Astoria, has”
― John Gierach, Trout Bum

“Charles Waterman, Gerald Almy,”
― John Gierach, Trout Bum