Fishing Quotes

The best time to go fishing is when you can

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.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.

We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

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

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

Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.