Quotes About Catching Fish

#1. True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Fennel Hudson

#3. 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

#4. Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

Robert Hughes

#5. Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.

John Gierach

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

Fennel Hudson

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

Rafael Sabatini

#8. In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand to use a carpenter's plane and the trick of catching fish with a bush fly and a strip of greenhide these things are like the dark marks made in the rings of great trees locked forever in my daily self.

Peter Carey

#9. I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

Jimmy Buffett

#10. Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it ...

Thomas Leuthard

#11. I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek.

Shannen Doherty

#12. To obey," even in the slightest and smallest thing, "is better than sacrifice,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

Tony Bishop

#14. We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

Leigh Hunt

#15. Millennia ago, some genius discovered that such wiggles as fish and
rabbits could be caught in nets. Much later, some other genius thought
of catching the world in a net.

Alan W. Watts

#16. The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.

Rick Barry

#17. I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

Kathryn Sansone

#18. I think it's important to take chances.

David Sedaris

#19. 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.

Deion Sanders

#20. If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know
how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

Norman Maclean

#21. Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't ... that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.

Clare Vanderpool

#22. After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Auguste Comte

#23. The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#24. The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

Mark Hall

#26. I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Mike Tyson

#27. Man is a thinking animal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

Bjorn Lomborg

#29. The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

A. Best

#30. In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

Jimmy Fallon