Top 100 Quotes About Fishing
#1. If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
Alan Sillitoe
#2. If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.
Mark Kurlansky
#3. I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.
John Ford
#4. Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
Izaak Walton
#5. He'd tried fishing, dancing, gambling and drink, allegedly four of life's greatest pleasures, and wasn't sure that he saw the point. Food he was happy with - Death liked a good meal as much as anyone else.
Anonymous
#6. There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
W.S. Gilbert
#7. It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.
Theodore Gordon
#8. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Herbert Hoover
#9. Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
Arthur Ransome
#10. I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.
Douglass North
#12. 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.
John Gierach
#13. The fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.
Naomi Mitchison
#14. The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.
Henry T. Blackaby
#15. To catch affection, try being efficient by using a fishing net. You can't sit back and wait for romance to grow on trees.
Jarod Kintz
#16. On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
Arnold Gingrich
#17. Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.
Kim Gordon
#18. Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
Zane Grey
#19. Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
Norman MacCaig
#20. One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.
Henry Paulson
#21. Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.
Thomas McGuane
#22. The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
Timothy Ferriss
#23. I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.
George Burns
#24. There is no such thing as too much snow.
Doug Coombs
#25. Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
Bill Barich
#26. I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.
Ving Rhames
#27. In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.
Rick Perlstein
#28. 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?
Lee Wulff
#29. Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks ... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.
Gloria Reuben
#30. Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
Rudyard Kipling
#31. Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
Jimmy Carter
#32. If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.
Dizzy Dean
#33. I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop for dresses.
Jordan Pruitt
#34. Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.
John Gierach
#35. It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.
Fennel Hudson
#36. Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life.
Brandi Carlile
#37. Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!
Richard Bach
#38. For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.
Charles Ritz
#39. The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.
Paul Schullery
#40. I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
Linda Hamilton
#41. Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.
Thomas Bastard
#43. Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
Clark Gable
#44. I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#45. I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.
Tom Felton
#46. A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.
Bruce Springsteen
#47. Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.
Pablo Neruda
#48. For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.
Barton Seaver
#49. Other CEOs were shown fly-fishing in Scottish rivers or piloting their own Learjets into Helsinki. Mr. Hosokawa was photographed at home in the leather chair he sat in when he listened, a Nansei EX-12 stereo system behind him.
Ann Patchett
#50. And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.
Laisha Rosnau
#51. Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.
Charles Dickens
#52. Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
Chris Evans
#53. The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.
Theodore Gordon
#54. I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.
John Lasseter
#55. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!
William Shakespeare
#56. To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
George Herbert
#57. Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your head, then have somebody strap two sacks of cement across your shoulders and you will know what a space suit feels like under one gravity.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.
RJ Mitte
#59. The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.
Gladys Taber
#61. The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
John Gierach
#62. I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#65. As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake."
"Wow ... ," I breathed.
She frowned at me.
"That was a great metaphor," I said.
"Oh please."
"I need to write that down," I said, ignoring her complaints, fishing for my new mobile to type it out.
Brandon Sanderson
#66. I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.
Jerry Doyle
#67. After an hour's drive, he pulled off onto a gravel road and followed it back to a lake surrounded by woods. At one time, the place had been special. He had gone fishing there with his sons when they were younger.
Angela Roquet
#68. The long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is the name of the one person on the planet who does not know their location!
Tony Bishop
#69. A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart
Roderick Haig-Brown
#70. Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.
Fennel Hudson
#71. There is a moment during every fight with a strong fish when you wonder whether it or you will win the battle.
Fennel Hudson
#72. Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.
Ted Trueblood
#73. If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.
Avi Lewis
#74. You can't go fishing while you're anchored in the desert.
Jayce O'Neal
#75. I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
Sylvia Earle
#76. I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all
directions ...
Julio Cortazar
#77. If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story ...
Paul Schullery
#80. Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
Andrew Stanton
#81. Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.
Henry Beard
#82. Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
#83. Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
Malcolm Fraser
#84. 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.
John Gierach
#85. 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
#86. Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England
Washington Irving
#87. You must feel comfortable with that fly rod in your hand before you spend time, money, and emotional capital on a fishing trip.
The Orvis Company
#88. The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A. Best
#89. Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
Margaret Mead
#90. I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.
Ed Zern
#91. Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
Wendell Berry
#92. I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
Lou Henry Hoover
#93. I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain
Henry Winkler
#94. In the European Union, the relationship between politicians and the fishing industry has become like that of a doctor assisting the suicide of a patient.
Callum Roberts
#95. Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry
#96. 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
#97. We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!
Hank Williams Jr.
#98. He had never seen fly-fishing like this before. There were wet flies, and there were dry flies, but this fly augured into the water with a saw-toothed whine and dragged the fish out backwards.
Terry Pratchett
#99. In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.
William Bernard Ziff Jr.
#100. 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 days.
Whitey Herzog
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