Fishing Quotes

Fishing Quote of the day

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

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.

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.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

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?

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

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

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

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.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

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.

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

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

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.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

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

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.

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

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

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

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.

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.