Fuel for the Fire

June 13 – “It is not the fish we catch that counts, for they can be had for mere silver. It is the break of the waves, the joyous rush of the brook, and the contemplation of the eternal rush of the stream.” - Herbert Hoover

June 14 – “Find the journey’s end in every step.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

June 15 – “Your headiest success as a true angler begins when you start caring more about fishing than the fish.” - Arnold Gingrich

June 16 – “Why do I fish? The easiest answer is that my father and all my ancestors did it before me.” - Former President Jimmy Carter

June 17 – “Experience usually is what you get when you don’t get what you want, but if there were no such thing as optimism, there wouldn’t be any such thing as fishing.” -Michael McIntosh

June 18 – “They are able who think they are able.” - Virgil

June 19 – “The music of angling is more compelling to me than anything contrived in the greatest symphony hall.” - A. J. McClane

June 20 – “In its deepest self, fishing is the most solitary sport, for at its best it is all between you and the fish.” -Arnold Gingrich

June 21 – “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

June 22 – “Never cut what you can untie.” - Joseph Joubert

June 23 – “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren.” (Acts 1:14 – Five times in the first five chapters of the Book of Acts we are told the disciples of Jesus were ‘of one accord.”)