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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

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

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

Fish and visitors smell in three days. — Benjamin Franklin

I have other fish to fry. — Miguel De Cervantes

He wanted me to go with him, and had cast his line, hoping to snag his most elusive catch - me. — Amber Lynn Natusch

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

I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water. — Ving Rhames

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

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ... — Robert Burns

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

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Anchor buoys marking the dorymen's fishing trawl sank and then shot back to the surface. — Barbara Walsh

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

The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why. — Ed Zern

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered. — Thomas McGuane

Well, the plenty of fish in the sea thing is bullshit," I said. "The other fish are weird, smell funny, or hooked on someone else's fishing line. — L.D. Davis

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

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas. — John D. Voelker

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

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

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think — John Gierach

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments. — John Gierach

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness — John McPhee

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. — George Crabbe

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. — Thomas McGuane

Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated. — Zane Grey

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish. — Pablo Neruda

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot. — Dwight L. Moody

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go. — Paul Schullery

An excellent angler, and now with God. — Izaak Walton

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. — Sharon Gannon

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures. — Herman Melville

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

'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. — William Shakespeare

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

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him. — Zane Grey

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power. — Baruch Spinoza

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

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

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly. — Izaak Walton

Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated — Ray Bergman

There are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream. — Ed Zern

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. — John Gierach

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. — Thomas McGuane

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. — Bill Barich

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

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

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling ... — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ... — Leigh Hunt

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Thaddeus Norris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. — G. E. M. Skues

To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take. — Roderick Haig-Brown

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

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith. — John Gierach

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play ... — Robert Burns

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

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." — Corrie Ten Boom

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

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod. — Mark Kurlansky

Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method. — Granger Smith

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

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

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

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. — Robert Lowell

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat. — Justin Cronin

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care. — William Butler Yeats