Fishing Quotes

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.

Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.

Probably fishing is my first passion.

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

English literature is a flying fish.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.

The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

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

All fish are not caught with flies

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.