function getaQuote() { var maxQuotes=21; var whichQuote=get_random(maxQuotes); whichQuote--; var quote=new Array(maxQuotes) quote[0]="Not all those who wander are lost —J.R.R. Tolkien"; quote[1]="Outboard motors are the invention of the Devil —Lyle Robertson"; quote[2]="Carpe Salvelinus Fontinalis —Jim Dougher"; quote[3]="Float tubes should be inflated until they are as hard as a rock. —Barry Olson"; quote[4]="Three fisherman in a driftboat should be workable, providing everyone can cast. —Dan White"; quote[5]="In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fisherman on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry fly fisherman. —Norman McLean"; quote[6]="I think the losers should have to clean the fish. —Anonymous"; quote[7]="I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly... —John Voelker (Robert Traver)"; quote[8]="...all existence fades into a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. —Norman McLean"; quote[9]="There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. —Steven Wright"; quote[10]="Here, I think I can reach over there if I just lean out a little more. —Bob Rasmussen"; quote[11]="You know, I bet if we came back with SCUBA gear we could probably get that rod. —Bob Cooper"; quote[12]="One fish limit? Are you kidding? —Anonymous"; quote[13]="Fish are, of course, indispensable to the angler. They give him an excuse for fishing and justify the flyrod without which he would be a mere vagrant. —Sparse Grey Hackle (Alfred Miller)"; quote[14]="Chasing trout is no less wearing and barely less complicated than chasing women. —John Voelker (Robert Traver)"; quote[15]="Often, I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito-bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand, have I been in a place that was less than beautiful. —Charles Kuralt"; quote[16]="The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning; no matter how long we have been at it, we are constantly making some fresh discovery, picking up some new wrinkle. If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg. —Theodore Gordon"; quote[17]="Fly Fishers are notorious for not explaining what they are doing to their spouses or strangers. It is too complicated, they think, or else it is like jazz in Louis Armstrong's paradox: if it has to be explained, it can't be. —M. R. Montgomery"; quote[18]="The gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men's lives the hours spent in fishing. —Assyrian Tablet, sometime B.C."; quote[19]="The climax in the poem of trouting, is the spring of the split bamboo. —Lewis France"; quote[20]="Is a man who's too busy to go fishing a success? —John Gierach"; document.write(quote[whichQuote]); } getaQuote(); //-->
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