Trout Quotations

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

We're beginning to catch a few good trout along the south shoreline. But it's still very slow fishing with various mullet imitation plugs and Old Bayside tails in white/chartreuse or shad colors.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

The only way to increase (the available fish) is to have wild trout streams and wild fish to catch.

Short-term, (the poisoning) will have a big impact on the locals but long-term, it could once again be one of the best still-water trout fisheries anywhere in the country,

Since they're smaller lakes, they get more trout per acre. We get better use of our trout in smaller lakes.

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

One thing is certain, there is no shortage of trout on Sabine Lake. In fact, I don't think most of them ever leave. That's why the fishing is so good year round here. But lately, it's just been a test to try and find them from one day to the next.

I had two guys out Tuesday and we caught four trout and a couple of reds. It's just not happening right now. Some of the top trout areas are too shallow to get in with a boat. I've been hitting the birds on the upper end of the lake. There are lots of birds, but they aren't marking too many trout. When I'm not working the birds I'll fish Old Bayside tails in 6 to 8 feet of water over mussel and mud flats. Traps in chrome and a blue back have been best under the birds.

From our point of view, this road causes a lot of problems for bull trout because it constantly erodes.

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim

If it hadn't been for David Jones -- his vision, his interest and his money -- this wouldn't have happened. I don't know of any volunteer project that has taken off with such interest as the Trout in the Classroom project in Martinsville.

He said he wanted to go fishing, and I'm gonna take him trout fishing. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take him to the mountains.

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

He (Cox) got this thing going and we're excited about the opportunities it will allow our people to catch trout in the winter. We think it's going to be a great bonus for our program.

Greene's calf looks like a trout today. There are so many colors it's unbelievable. It looks like a speckled trout.

I think we're on our way to seeing a perfect brook trout stream that can produce some large brook trout. It's totally amazing to see this stream recover.

The ability to read a trout stream is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL quarterback.

Whirling disease affects the majority of rainbow trout in many of Montana and Colorado's famous streams like the Madison in Montana and the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers,

We have so much snow up there that there probably won't be much, if any open water for the opening day of trout season.

We're going to be stocking 20,000 legal-size rainbow trout as soon as the ice is off, as soon as we can get to the lake.

The expectation is that there will be more fish available. Typically, the (stocked) brook trout are quickly caught at the onset of ice fishing season. These ponds didn't receive the ice fishing pressure. That certainly bodes well for open-water fishermen.

While not driving our listing decision, the Service appreciates the many conservation efforts conducted by our partners. Our decision was based primarily on the present-day status and trend of Yellowstone cutthroat trout populations and the mitigation of many of the existing factors that can affect the species.

You have networks for people who bass fish, and another for people who trout fish.

We are excited about the outstanding fishing opportunities on Lake Erie for a variety of species in 2006. The large 2003 hatch should provide large numbers of good-sized walleye and yellow perch, while quality smallmouth bass and steelhead trout fishing also will available to Lake Erie anglers.

With fewer trout to stock, everything will be less. We'll need to do a better job with the waters we have. We have to look at the best opportunities for using fish and getting them to where anglers are.

Blue trout are very rare. They're sort of a novelty.

A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.

Fly fishing for trout is like raising children. You never know what's going to happen next.

Fishing too long a fly rod on a small trout stream is like driving a greyhound bus down a deer trail.

I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.

Raising trout in the numbers that we do to the size we do is an extremely expensive proposition. We have an obligation to get the best return on that investment that we can.

People focus too much on numbers. Given how much trout waters vary in size and access, numbers alone don't reflect fishing opportunities.

You're looking at 50 plus years of having a single, statewide opening day in mid-April. That means just about everyone who is out there trout fishing now has never known anything else.

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

This is one of the most popular stocking sites. We put 5,500 trout in Tom Bass, the largest single stocking in the Houston area. It's a good-sized lake and it can handle quite a bit of fishing pressure. Most sites get between 1,000 and 2,000 fish.

This egg incubation research is just one way that hatchery we at the hatchery continue to try and improve rearing efficiencies. Fisheries Chief Dennis Unkenholz, Technical Services Chief George Vandel and other Game, Fish and Parks administrators are to be commended for their wisdom and foresight encouraging all of the practical, applied research. These studies enable hatchery staff to innovate and more efficiently produce trout and salmon for the benefits of those who fish in South Dakota.

They say that to catch brown trout you have to be near invisible. I tried that on the Cimarron in 1999. It worked so well that a large brown bear never saw me as he snatched the fish from the end of my tippet.

They are putting a lot more trout in there and this is feeding the bass. The ones I'm seeing now are really big with huge bellies, maybe up to 10 pounds.

There's a lot of trout in the 14- to 15-inch range, and a few are going to 3 and 4 pounds.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals-beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

It's a steady bite, but you have to stay with the birds. The trout under the birds are solid fish with quite a few running from 3 to 5 pounds.

It was a very nice fish. Whether it was an actual state record we'll never know because as soon as we realized it wasn't caught from an approved trout water in season, we stopped the verification process although we did have some doubts about the size.

It probably holds trout until Memorial Day or so, too. It depends on the weather, but it may hold trout even until early June.

It's not a particularly large program in terms of the number of waters or the number of trout stocked, but it's generally been pretty well received. Particularly in instances like this winter, where you've got a lot of open water, if the conditions are right, it's great because people can fish knowing there are fresh trout out there.

The average stocked trout goes to about a half pound in Pennsylvania. You really don't need a heavy line in the first place. When you see low, slow waters the fish are line shy. When it's high and cloudy, there's not as much of an issue.

I've had a trout pond set up in the school for 10 years. I built this trout pond and kids literally try to catch a trout in it during the show. It's pretty neat.

After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.

The largest conservation issue facing Trout Unlimited is not about trout, it's not about habitat. It's about creating future generations of conservation activists. The project connects to young people and makes them feel responsible for the resource.

If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work,

In some ways, it's a lot more technical than going out and throwing a streamer for bass or a little nymph pattern for bluegills or a popper for bass. Trout seem like they can be a lot more finicky.

If you think about it, the guys at the hatchery aren't going to stand there and count 1,000 trout when they load them.

He's still a little young for bass fishing, so I wanted to teach him the ropes and trout offer a little more action.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

The trout are fine. If you?re going to eat other resident fish, you should follow the guidelines for bass.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's finding utterly failed to consider the magnitude of the threat facing Yellowstone cutthroat trout. The Yellowstone cutthroat trout is beset by a multitude of factors ... and requires immediate protection under the Endangered Species Act.

All these plans for testing sound great, but until we actually see someone doing something, it doesn't mean a whole lot. I grew up here and we used to fish and eat the trout we caught. Now I don't think I'd eat anything caught there.

The main principles for trout fishing are food and cover. If fish can get under the (ice) shelf and feel protected, they will eat more aggressively.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout.