Fishing Quotes

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

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

Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

My hobby is fishing for girls.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

The great fish eat the small.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

Best fishing in troubled waters.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

I have other fish to fry.

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

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

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

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 years.

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.

Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.