Quotes About Gone Fishing

#1. 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.

William G. Tapply

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop for dresses.

Jordan Pruitt

#9. 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

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

Fennel Hudson

#11. Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life.

Brandi Carlile

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. English literature is a flying fish.

E. M. Forster

#18. 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

#19. I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#20. 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

#21. The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.

Jack Nicklaus

#22. Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

Louise Erdrich

#23. The sun burned like a fire ship on the water, sinking slowly till only a red smoke was left trailing up the sky. A fishing boat was headed into the harbor, black and small against the enormous west. Above its glittering wake a few gulls whirled like sparks which had gone out.

Ross Macdonald

#24. 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.

John Gierach

#25. 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.

Brad Paisley

#26. I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Izaak Walton

#27. He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.

Ernest Hemingway,

#28. My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

Ben Crenshaw

#29. These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.

Marc Bekoff

#30. During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

John D. Voelker

#31. The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.

Henry T. Blackaby

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Izaak Walton

#36. 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

#37. There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

W.S. Gilbert

#38. It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

Theodore Gordon

#39. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

Herbert Hoover

#40. Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Arthur Ransome

#41. 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

#42. Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

Arnold Gingrich

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Arnold Gingrich

#48. Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.

Kim Gordon

#49. Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Zane Grey

#50. 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

#51. One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

Henry Paulson

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

Thomas McGuane

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. There is no such thing as too much snow.

Doug Coombs

#56. Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

Bill Barich

#57. 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

#58. 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