Jessica Maxwell Quotes

• And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Mar, Pesca, Ríos

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Fishing

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• Pero cuando vi la gracia cursiva de la línea de mosca de Guido Rahr escribiendo oraciones que no sabía leer a los dioses de los ríos de Mongolia Exterior, supe que mi nombre también estaba escrito allí. La pesca con mosca iba a ser mi versión del deporte de mi padre, mi guiño a mis antepasados escoceses y a mí mismo, y a la parte de América enloquecida por la pesca que había reclamado como propia.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sports, Prayer, Father

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• These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Lying, Thinking, Lakes

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• Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Lagos, Mar, Pesca

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