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