Top 31 Sport Fishing Quotes
#1. Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen ...
Ed Zern
#2. I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
Jack Nicklaus
#3. Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.
Gregg Harper
#4. People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.
Ed Zern
#5. Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.
Cornelia Parker
#6. There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day's angling. Catching fish is but one of them.
Fennel Hudson
#7. Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.
Fennel Hudson
#8. Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.
Fennel Hudson
#9. 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
#10. He belonged to the new breed of male epicureans who viewed cooking as a competitive sport, and pursued it with the same avidity that others had for fly-fishing or golf, with the attendant fetishization of the associated gadgetry and equipment. He
Jay McInerney
#11. Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers," Gunnar said. "It is the contemplative man's recreation.
Clare Vanderpool
#12. I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.
Robert Redford
#13. Angling is a recreation. It's supposed to be fun.
Fennel Hudson
#14. Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.
Thaddeus Norris
#15. Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
Robert Hughes
#16. If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
Hal Borland
#17. Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon.
Cherise Sinclair
#19. 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.
Curt Gowdy
#20. A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.
Thomas McGuane
#22. 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
#23. Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
P. J. O'Rourke
#24. Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert Redford
#25. Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?
Fennel Hudson
#26. The wild carp is an icon that forges a living connection between the past and the present.
Fennel Hudson
#27. The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#28. Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment ... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often
Hilary McKay
#29. 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
#30. It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.
Fennel Hudson
#31. It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.
Theodore Gordon
