“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
Tom Brokaw
“It’s a pontifex, a bridge to the skies, in fact the Pope himself is called Pontifex Maximus”
Father Mark Montebello
“I remember in Gozo villagers used to say one should have three altars: the Church, the word of God and the matrimonial bed. That showed there was no separation between the physical and the spiritual”
“This Greek idea of dualism is the problem deep down, this thing of having the spiritual on one side and the profane on the other. We are still grappling with this. Spirituality is a plus, sexuality a minus”
“If the weather's nice, I'll be fishing [yesterday]. I'll go to church in the morning, fish in the afternoon . . . and on Monday I'll be taking care of school business.”
Dave Robbins
“He fishes well who uses a golden hook”
Latin Proverb
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.”
Cynthia Heimel
