Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Theodore Gordon

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Theodore Gordon.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Theodore Gordon was an American writer who fished the Catskill region of New York State in the late 19th century through the early 20th century. Though he never published a book, Gordon is often called the "father of the American school of dry fly fishing". He wrote numerous articles for the Fishing Gazette from 1890 and published works in Forest and Stream from 1903, sometimes under the pseudonym Badger Hackle.

American - Writer | 1854 - 1915

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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

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

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

Theodore Gordon

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

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

Theodore Gordon

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

Theodore Gordon