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

Fish and visitors smell in three days. — Benjamin Franklin

I have other fish to fry. — Miguel De Cervantes

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever. — William Gilbert

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

Water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us. — Arnold Gingrich

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

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. — John Gierach

In rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series. — Lee Wulff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life. — Herbert Hoover

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

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers. — Roderick Haig-Brown

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

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off. — Ed Zern

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

The world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes in mystery. — Fennel Hudson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. — Wendell Berry