Fishing Quotes
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I look into... my fly box, and think about all the elements I should consider in choosing the perfect fly: water temperature, what stage of development the bugs are in, what the fish are eating right now. Then I remember what a guide told me: 'Ninety percent of what a trout eats is brown and fuzzy and about five-eighths of an inch long. (Quote by - Allison Moir)
Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I should never be able to enjoy it if I had to rely on the cooperation of the fish. (Quote by - Sparse Grey Hackle)
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. (Quote by - Koos Brandt)
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. (Quote by - Babylonian Proverb)
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. (Quote by - Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977)
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. (Quote by - Theodore Gordon)
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in! (Quote by - John Wolcot)
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. (Quote by - A.K. Best)
Just as in cooking there's no such thing as a little garlic, in fishing there's no such thing as a little drag. (Quote by - H.G. Tapply)
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
Fishing costs like sin but requires heavier clothing. (Quote by - L. C. Clower)
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with a fisherman?(Quote by - Woody Allen)
We ask a simple question And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish? (Quote by - William Sherwood Fox)
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. (Quote by - Beatrice Cook)
If I'm not going to catch anything, then I 'd rather not catch anything on flies. (Quote by - Bob Lawless)
There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
More than half the intense enjoyment of fly- fishing is derived from the beautiful surroundings, the satisfaction felt from being in the open air, the new lease of life secured thereby, and the many, many pleasant recollections of all one has seen, heard and done. (Quote by - Charles F. Orvis)
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. (Quote by - Paul O'Neil)
The season is ended. There was not enough of it; there never is. (Quote by - Nick Lyons)
I once gave up fishing. It was the most terrifying weekend of my life. (Quote by - Anon.)
Fishing books should ooze from a riverbank, not rocket out of publisher's offices in big cities. (Quote by - Neil Patterson)
The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able. (Quote by - Sparse Grey Hackle)
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. (Quote by - Stephen B. Leacock)
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. (Quote by - Zenna Schaffer)
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us think and feel. (Quote by - Roderick L. Haig-Brown)
Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by noon....well I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight. (Quote by - Brad Paisly)
A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire In killing a Pike; but the forked stick, With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick, Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,-- Will kill two for one, if you have any luck; The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile; When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go, The two-inched hook is better, I know, Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry, When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery. (Quote by - Thomas Barker)
For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes that they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth, thou shalt catch men. (Quote by - Bible)
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. (Quote by - Paul Schullery)
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can? (Quote by - Lee Wulff)
Buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open. (Quote by - Anatomy of a Fisherman by Robert Traver)
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. (Quote by - Sam Snead)
A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
It is not how abundant nor how considerable our catch be, but rather to the sport, and manner in which our quarry, the noble trout is angled. (Quote by - J.B. Martin)
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine! (Quote by - John Gay)
Look the fish gots a cigarette in its mouth! (Quote by - Don Vito)
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
The end of fishing is not angling, but catching. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
If our father had had his say, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him. (Quote by - Norman Maclean)
The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. (Quote by - Eugene Field)
There's no taking trout with dry breeches. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. (Quote by - Jimmy Cannon)
Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were, There's none of our employments With fishing can compare. - Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey). (Quote by - Thomas Durfee)
Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. (Quote by - William Sherwood Fox)
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. (Quote by - Ovid)
The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you? (Quote by - Lee Wulff)
In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone. (Quote by - Ray Bergman)
Game fish are too valuable to only be caught once. (Quote by - Lee Wulff)
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly. (Quote by - Jack Ohman)
The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is held by a great fool. (Quote by - Jeanne Guyet)
They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled. (Quote by - Richard Grafton)
La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile, Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile. (Quote by - Jeanne Guyet)
Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never." (Quote by - Grey of Fallodon)
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait. (Quote by - Jose Simon)
Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. (Quote by - John Gierach)
One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. (Quote by - Anon.)
Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? (Quote by - Dave Chiflett)
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. (Quote by - Roderick Haig-Brown)
Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect. (Quote by - Joe Brooks)
Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths. (Quote by - Jimmy D Moore)
One evening I was awakened from a deep sleep by a weird noise coming from my husband, only to find out he was dreaming and he was a Dry Fly. I suspected then, and now realize, his dreams are not made up of wild crazy women, only episodes of his days of being in the stream. (Quote by - Jan Thousand)
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't. (Quote by - John Gierach)
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. (Quote by - Arnold Gingrich)
All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. (Quote by - Harold F. Blaisdell)
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. (Quote by - Robert Traver)
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful. (Quote by - Charles Kuralt)
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. (Quote by - Charles Haas)
This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. (Quote by - Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.)
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this. (Quote by - W.C. Prime)
Never throw a long line when a short one will serve your purpose. (Quote by - Richard Penn)
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. (Quote by - Zane Grey)
He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry- fly fisherman. (Quote by - Norman Maclean - A River Runs Through It)
Best fishing in troubled waters. (Quote by - Sir John Harrington)
What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast? (Quote by - T. Nash Buckingham)
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well- govern'd angler. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne, Leaves off, against his placid wish, Impaling worms to torture fish. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. (Quote by - (Quote by - Doug Larson)
Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, 'I am killing him—all for the passing pleasure it brings me.' And something inside me clicked. I realized as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout. (Quote by - Paul O'Neil)
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them. (Quote by - John Gierach)
Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish. (Quote by - Deion Sanders)
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. (Quote by - Charles Waterman)
We got no troubles, Life is the bubbles, Under the sea. (Quote by - The Little Mermaid)
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. (Quote by - John Gierach)
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose. (Quote by - William Basse)
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy. (Quote by - George Crabbe)
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong. (Quote by - John Gierach)
The fish and I were both stunned and disbelieving to find ourselves connected by a line. (Quote by - William Humphrey)
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution. (Quote by - John Gierach)
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. (Quote by - Patrick F. McManus)
If you teach a man to fish, you'll never sell your fish at the market. (Quote by - Cheryl A. Soper)
Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. (Quote by - Bible)
The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't. (Quote by - Patrick F. McManus)
Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have not had time to go fishing. (Quote by - Clark Gable)
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives. (Quote by - Gwen Cooper and Evelyn Haas)
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. (Quote by - Thomas McGuane)
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. (Quote by - Roderick Haig- Brown)
If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business. (Quote by - Alfred W. Miller)
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water. (Quote by - William Tapply)
The angler forgets most of the fish he catches, but he does not forget the streams and lakes in which they are caught. (Quote by - Charles K. Fox)
When you are on the river, ocean or in the woods, you are the closest to the truth you'll ever get (Quote by - Jack Leonard)
My wife said I have so many fly rods and reels that I cannot possibly use them all. My reply was that I had rods and reels to fish, rods and reels to tinker with and then my fine-crafted rods and reels to "fondle and admire," while dreaming of trout fishing during the cold winter months. You can imagine what kind of look she gave me. (Quote by - Jimmy D. Moore)
Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport. (Quote by - Curt Gowdy)
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement. (Quote by - John Gierach)
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (Quote by - Bible)
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary (Quote by - Patrick McManus)
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip. (Quote by - John Gierach)
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure sincerity of mind. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. (Quote by - Chuck Clark)
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. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God. (Quote by - Tony Blake)
For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hook was such as heads the end of pole To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole; This hook was bated with a dragon's tail,-- And then on rock he stood to bob for whale. (Quote by - Sir William Davenant)
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. (Quote by - Patrick F. McManus)
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. (Quote by - John Buchan)
If fishing is like religion, then flyfishing is high church. (Quote by - Tom Brokaw)
The solution to any problem - work, love, money, whatever - is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. (Quote by - John Gierach)
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years. (Quote by - Whitey Herzog)
Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife (Quote by - John Voelker)
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
The great charm of fly- fishing is that we are always learning. (Quote by - Theodore Gordon)
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. (Quote by - Roderick Haig- Brown)
