Fishing Quotes

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

... the fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye

I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks.

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.

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem.

Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

Hunting, fishing, and trapping is literally perfect. It's the perfect system by which to balance and ground the animal populations for next year's productivity.

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.

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!

Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.

. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout.

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England