Fishing Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Fishing

Fishing Quotes & Sayings

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Maybe money couldn't buy happiness, but it could get you a table that looked like the back end of a deep-sea fishing vessel. — Kim Harrison

Fish and visitors smell in three days. — Benjamin Franklin

What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing. — Darby Stanchfield

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. — Brandi Carlile

We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing. — Douglas Adams

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

The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. — Norman Schwarzkopf

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away. — Eugene Field

When one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food. — Carol O'Connell

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

But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to catch whom. — J.D. Salinger

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them. — Ernest Hemingway,

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 — Hunter S. Thompson

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

There is no such thing as too much snow. — Doug Coombs

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream — Jimmy Carter

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world. — Will Rogers

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

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding. — Corey Ford

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? — Lee Wulff

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish. — Ernest Hemingway,

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner. — Arnold Gingrich

In the two days since Brac had discovered the fishing hole, he'd spent practically every waking moment with a rod in his hand. — Carol Lynne

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing. — Norman Schwarzkopf

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. — Doug Larson

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls ... — Jim Harrison

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

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen. — Henry David Thoreau

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams. — Izaak Walton

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

chair with a place for his trident and his fishing pole. Ares's — Rick Riordan

Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening — Basho Matsuo

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.. — John Paul Stevens

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away — Farley Mowat

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. — Izaak Walton

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect. — Zane Grey

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus

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

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry — Bill Drayton

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

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. — Dizzy Dean

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball. — Martin Milner

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. — Stephen Leacock

Anyone can be a fisherman in May. — Ernest Hemingway,

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks. — Jeff Foxworthy

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

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. — DeForest Kelley

To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net. — George Herbert

I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore. — Rickie Fowler

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after — Henry David Thoreau

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can? — Lee Wulff

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. — Tom Sutcliffe

Perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come. — Arthur Ransome

To catch affection, try being efficient by using a fishing net. You can't sit back and wait for romance to grow on trees. — Jarod Kintz

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so ... — Izaak Walton

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea. — Herman Melville

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't. — Kevin VanDam

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

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. — Jimmy Cannon

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

As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls. — Fennel Hudson

Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was. — Jessica Maxwell

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life. — Brandi Carlile

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends. — Scotty McCreery

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness. — Tom Sutcliffe

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. — Linda Greenlaw

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

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. — Henry David Thoreau

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. — Arthur Ransome

Whether it's fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream. — Jean Chatzky

All fish are not caught with flies — John Lyly

These lines are hooks, I'm fishing unknown seas. — Mark Lawrence

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers

There's no such thing as too much power! — Wolfgang Gullich

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. — John Gierach

Night fishing accentuates the atmosphere of a lake. It is as if, once darkness falls, the character of the pool announces, "I am here. — Fennel Hudson

So he taped a sign on the bathroom door that said OFFICE OF MR. THOMAS WADE. My mom put a sign next to it that said I'D RATHER BE FISHING. — Katherine Applegate

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. — Perry Como

Fishing and ear scratching the two reasons men were given hands. — Robin Hobb

Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star. — Alice Riley

There are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Rachel Gibson

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. — Herbert Hoover

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

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up. — Michael Faraday

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. — John Buchan

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

I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all
directions ... — Julio Cortazar

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

The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life. — Neil Gaiman

As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow — Ray Bergman

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. — James M. Barrie

There is a moment during every fight with a strong fish when you wonder whether it or you will win the battle. — Fennel Hudson

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. — John Gierach

Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon. — Cherise Sinclair

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing. — Henry Paulson