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Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' — Paul Watson

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover

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

It's not the fish you bring home from a day's fishing. It's the peace of mind. — Neil Gaiman

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

I wanted to add a photo of where Bruce Beckham's Inspector Skelgill likes to fish but I couldn't figure how to do it. — Bruce Beckham

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

Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing — Melissa Bank

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

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

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

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane

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

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot. — Lefty Kreh

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

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

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife. — John D. Voelker

Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers," Gunnar said. "It is the contemplative man's recreation. — Clare Vanderpool

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

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

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

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy. — Bobby Jindal

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

I don't even like fishing," I remarked, "with or without scrotums, particularly snagged ones. — David S. Atkinson

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today. — Ted Nugent

Angling is a recreation. It's supposed to be fun. — Fennel Hudson

When left alone with nothing but one's emotions and inner thoughts for company, the nocturnal world can be completely overpowering. — Fennel Hudson

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

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline. — Billy Connolly

Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face. — Karl Pilkington

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

It's not good fishing before the net. — George Herbert

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them. — Jeff Goldblum

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life. — Amber Heard

Saltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's like sex after lunch. — Charles Ritz

Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour? — Christopher Titus

There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day's angling. Catching fish is but one of them. — Fennel Hudson

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

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake. — Ben Crenshaw

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world ... What it hasn't got is not worth having ... — Kenneth Grahame

Once fishing was a rabbit's foot
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot — Robert Lowell

I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast. — Ed Zern

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it. — W.S. Gilbert

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

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast? — Nash Buckingham

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. — Harry S. Truman

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. — Naomi Mitchison

I'm homeless, and I'm an alcoholic. But I have a dream.'
'What's that?'
'I wanna go fishing. — Brandon Stanton

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. — Robert Altman

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

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

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

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

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 always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon. — Jack Nicklaus

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful. — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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. — Mitch Hedberg

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. — Charles W. Waterman

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

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

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

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

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't. — Patrick F. McManus

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

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