Favorite "quotes"

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day. Teach a man to fish and he has to buy bamboo rods, graphite reels, monofilament lines, neoprene waders, creels, tackleboxes, lures, flies, spinners, worm rigs, slip sinkers, offset hooks, gore-tex hats, 20 pocket vests, fish finders, depth sounders, radar, boats, trailers, global positioning systems, coolers, and six-packs.
 
For the "prairie peoples" with them comparing our weather here on coast to theirs, when they get lots of snow and cold...
"OH you get used to it" or "Its not really that bad"
 
For the "prairie peoples" with them comparing our weather here on coast to theirs, when they get lots of snow and cold...
"OH you get used to it" or "Its not really that bad"
My dad packed up the family in 1965 and took us to Vancouver Island, from northern Ontario, to a great job he had traveled by car, to get. As we were packing and selling off possessions, we were told repeatedly, " it rains a lot there you know."
as Dad used to say, "He who hesitates is lost."
 
Every day is a good, its just that some are better than others.
Unkown.

"It is what it is"
Todd Bertuzzi

Its a good day if its above zero and your above ground.

Me
 
One of my favorite pieces of writing by Haig-Brown.

I still don’t know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel. But I do know that if it were not for the strong, quick life of rivers, for their sparkle in the sunshine, for the cold grayness of them under rain and the feel of them about my legs as I set my feet hard down on the rocks or sand or gravel, I should fish less often. A river is never quite still; it is never quite the same from one day to the next. It has its own life and its own beauty, and the creatures it nourishes are alive and beautiful also. Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

If so, I’m glad I thought of it.



A River Never Sleeps 1944





Take care.
 
"If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;" Kipling

"Don't believe everything you think." Anon
 
"I'm from Alberta. I know how to drive in the Sno . . . "o_O
Well they are not far off wrong there,,,,,,have you driven in Vancouver or Victoria when they are hit with a "massive" snow storm and the 2" of accumulation is like the end of the world is about to happen. Just kidding of course,,,but it is pretty scary.
 
Well they are not far off wrong there,,,,,,have you driven in Vancouver or Victoria when they are hit with a "massive" snow storm and the 2" of accumulation is like the end of the world is about to happen. Just kidding of course,,,but it is pretty scary.
Drive in Victoria like everyone is out to kill you and you will probably survive !!
 
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