Quotes About Angling

#1. Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

Izaak Walton

#2. Angling is tightly woven in a fabric of moral, social, and philosophical threads which are not easily rent by the violent climate of our times.

A.J. McClane

#3. A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Zane Grey

#4. Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. I once hear a poem about angling. It say when you send out your line, it is like you cast out your troubles to let the current carry them away. I keep casting.

Clare Vanderpool

#5. That doesn't mean they're not still angling for something. The most charitable people in the world are choosing altruism, not because it's a noble endeavor, but because being noble fulfills a need within them.

Lindsay Buroker

#6. Traditional angling is the antithesis of the modern specimen angling scene.

Fennel Hudson

#7. There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day's angling. Catching fish is but one of them.

Fennel Hudson

#8. Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.

Fennel Hudson

#9. 'He'll probably end up angling for a threesome. Then I'll have to get my animal name so I can be a part of the group. So Native American of you white boys. I'll probably go for something like Falcon. Or Wolf.'
'Jackass suits you better,' Anna intones.

T.J. Klune

#10. I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

Thomas McGuane

#11. The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

Juliana Berners

#12. Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

Thomas McGuane

#13. I'm used to feeling like I'm the only one sees the hard things coming, and I'm always angling to skew the odds in my favor. It's nice to know somebody else is preparing, too.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Izaak Walton

#15. You've been fucked before, huh?" he asked, angling her so that his piercing slid over her G-spot when he entered. "By the time I'm done, you'll have reassessed your definition

Cherrie Lynn

#16. Precious," the cat said and leaned forward, angling his head. Shane longed for the cat's kiss, but instead the cat bent to nip Shane's chin. "So mine. And so hungry.

Kari Gregg

#17. Angling is a recreation. It's supposed to be fun.

Fennel Hudson

#18. Obviously, she thought, angling her head up to the second story, where filthy windows clouded with dust and decay seemed to transform into yawning faces with soulless eyes.

Jessica Lemmon

#19. I tell myself not to feel sexually threatened. I am of no special interest; he could just as easily be angling for the printer.

Joe Dunthorne

#20. Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

Desmond Morris

#21. It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Stephen Leacock

#22. O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Izaak Walton

#23. Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

Rafael Sabatini

#24. Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Izaak Walton

#25. She fit
against him like a teaspoon inside a tablespoon, curves angling
together in all the right places to lock them into place with a nearly
audible click of perfection

Louisa Edwards

#26. Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

Washington Irving

#27. 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.

Ray Bergman

#28. The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

Theodore Gordon

#29. Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Izaak Walton

#30. 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

William Shakespeare

#31. Angling is an Art ... an art worth your learning.

Izaak Walton

#32. There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

Lee Wulff

#33. Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so ...

Izaak Walton

#34. Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#35. Traditional angling is to escape the noise and one-upmanship of modern angling in favour of something simple and beautiful.

Fennel Hudson

#36. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

William Shakespeare

#37. 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.

Lord Byron

#38. Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.

Fennel Hudson

#39. The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Lord Byron

#40. God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Izaak Walton

#41. There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

Washington Irving

#42. It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Izaak Walton

#43. You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

Izaak Walton

#44. Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?

Fennel Hudson

#45. Catching fish is low on my agenda when I go fishing. I'm much more interested in savouring the day and exploring the wildlife of the river.

Fennel Hudson

#46. It was one of those places where mist lingers well into the day and the dawn chorus starts early.

Fennel Hudson

#47. Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.

Fennel Hudson

#48. Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they're fishing for.

Fennel Hudson

#49. I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature.

Fennel Hudson

#50. The world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes in mystery.

Fennel Hudson

#51. Night fishing accentuates the atmosphere of a lake. It is as if, once darkness falls, the character of the pool announces, "I am here.

Fennel Hudson

#52. When left alone with nothing but one's emotions and inner thoughts for company, the nocturnal world can be completely overpowering.

Fennel Hudson

#53. To go fishing is one of the most pleasurable experiences I can imagine.

Fennel Hudson

#54. I am an old fashioned angler seeking to fish in a peaceful and relaxing way in traditional surroundings. Other anglers are too noisy, too busy, and catch fish that might break my landing net.

Fennel Hudson

#55. It had been a long quest. Yet I was within casting distance of my dream.

Fennel Hudson

#56. There are some pools that woo us, as if in courtship. Others challenge, as if yearning a feisty relationship.

Fennel Hudson

#57. The best time to go fishing is when you can

Ed Zern

#58. The wild carp is an icon that forges a living connection between the past and the present.

Fennel Hudson

#59. Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.

Fennel Hudson

#60. There is a moment during every fight with a strong fish when you wonder whether it or you will win the battle.

Fennel Hudson

#61. Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.

Fennel Hudson

#62. It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.

Fennel Hudson