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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
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
trange things began to happen in the sea.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
Water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.
— Arnold Gingrich
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.
— Thomas McGuane
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
Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed
— John D. Voelker
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.
— John Gierach
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England
— Washington Irving
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
— George Crabbe
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
— Zane Grey
Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.
— Tony Bishop
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
— Baruch Spinoza
'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
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
My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.
— George Orwell
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
— Izaak Walton
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world ... What it hasn't got is not worth having ...
— Kenneth Grahame
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.
— Arthur Ransome
And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.
— Juliana Berners
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.
— Paul Schullery
I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
— Rafael Nadal
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
— Thomas McGuane
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Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.
— Tom Sutcliffe
You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.
— Robert Benchley
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
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
— Harold Russell
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
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
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
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
— Izaak Walton
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
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
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
— Robert Hughes
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
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
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
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
Or whipping its rough surface for a trout ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
— Arthur Ransome
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
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
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.
— G. E. M. Skues
It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
— William Butler Yeats
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.
— Herman Melville
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
— Robert Lowell
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
An excellent angler, and now with God.
— Izaak Walton
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
