Fishing Quotes by Rudyard Kipling, Charles Ritz, Karl Urban, Reba McEntire, A. A. Milne, Jacques Maritain and many others.
…But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike as possible to the flies on the water. But casting and accuracy and how you present your fly and how fast it gets there and how fast it swims are all more important than matching the hatch.
I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.
There’s no taking trout with dry breeches.
After a day’s fishing, I’ll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.
It’s like fishing — you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything‘s cool from then on. You’ve got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he’ll be fine.
One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.
Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.
Cargo shipping, cruising, mining, oil drilling, fishing – all these industrial activities could expand to the Arctic, one of the last remaining wild places, and with potentially devastating consequences.
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn’t determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It’s less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn’t address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
When I found out that Inspiration 4 was gonna be the first all-civilian mission to space, well then there’s no chance that’s going to be a bunch of fishing buddies going on a joy ride. That’s something of significance, of responsibility.
Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .
I’m bad at fishing for information.
I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
Great Wass Island Preserve is a 1,579-acre Nature Conservancy jewel, a place of spectacular botanical interest, and Jonesport is situated on a postcard-pretty harbor. Tourism is not serious business in those parts – boat building and fishing are – and there are no signs telling how to get to Great Wass. But I know.
All men are equal before fish.
We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.
There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.
Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing – and they cannot pray all the time!
We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,–at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.
There’s fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.
The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their “soil,” but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.
My grandparents would take me out fishing in their boat once a week from when I was about two or three, growing up in in Texas and Louisiana. I loved it.
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won’t catch fish if it stays in its box.
Fishing is my therapy. Its such a great immersion into life.
I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.
Poets talk about “spots of time”, but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.
A lot of people think there’s a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn’t.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
I have other fish to fry.
Best fishing in troubled waters.
Martha Stewart’s a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What’s next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can’t is write prescriptions.
An excellent angler, and now with God.
Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing and things like that. But it’s the right of the American people to have a means of defense against a tyrannical government. So, sometimes you got to have that back-up plan.
One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing
There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn’t have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer
Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.
The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.
I’d pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.
St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation – not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day – and I really, really wanted to go – but I was too young.
I’m big into fishing, but I’ve never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.
The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.
If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in ‘The Sun Also Rises‘ when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.
I don’t eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
Fishing is quite a good metaphor for life. You do your prep, you do your thinking, you put your bait out, and you wait, confident that you’ve done your groundwork. But a lot of life is luck.
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
I grew up hunting and fishing in Land Between the Lakes. I have so many great memories of camping with my mom over at Redd Hollow.
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
Plastic waste is now found in the most remote areas of the planet. It kills marine life and is doing major harm to communities that depend on fishing and tourism.
In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don’t have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn’t for you.
Man can learn a lot from fishing – when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
We intend to bring fun and family activities to the American market from Down Under, where we believe we have some of the best fishing in the world and the best conservative approach to fishing through catch, kiss, and release.
You know, you can only play just so much golf or go fishing just so often.
When I go Miami, I go deep-sea fishing. I love doing that.
Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher‘s salary.
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large ‘no-take’ marine protected areas.
I’m an outdoors girl – I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
The pleasant’st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren’t going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn’t grow up to be nerds.
Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think
Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
I never lost a little fish – Yes, I’m free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
We’d like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.
I never go fishing on a full stomach. If we are allowed to, we always eat what we catch. Were eating food as fresh as it can be.
The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school’s fishing team.
What’s the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.
It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there’s no noise other than nature – and it’s so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
I’m going to gut you like a fish.
The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.
I went where the boys in the family went. We would shoot basketball. We would shoot guns. We’d play cards. We’d go fishing at the pond.
If you’re looking for a wonderful way to spend time, take up fishing.
It’s essential I look after myself, because of what I put my body through in stunts as an actor, and even more through the fishing journeys. Trekking through jungles is tough. We don’t escape to hotels and if I’m living with tribes on the bank of a river, I camp out under a canopy or kip in a canoe.
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.
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don’t remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, ‘There are no women around?’ Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.
The two best times to fish is when it’s raining and when it ain’t.
‘LazyTown’ is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it ‘go.’ The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.
Feed a fish a cat a day
If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don’t go fishing, you’ll never catch any fish.
Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
There’s no such thing as too much power!
You pray for days when the crappie fishing is so relentlessly good that you’re giggling like a kid and the only things you’re lacking in life are another stringer and an extra hour on the water. But what do you do with that pile of freshly caught crappies spilling out of your cooler? Call your pals for a mega-fry.
Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn’t as much fun as working.
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers’ and the journalists‘ experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.
I’d rather go fishing for three years.
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we’d rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we’re doing.
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
Thomas More: Will, I’d trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there’s less wind, and the fishing’s better. And “Look,” we say, “look, I’m anchored! To my principles!
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.
I frankly don’t make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.
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.
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It’s not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.
Far away Tongariro! Green – white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
I do love the outdoor. Love love the outdoors, fishing and hunting and that kind of thing.
Whether people know it or not, I’m a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.
Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.
It’s not the fish you catch, it’s the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.
God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He’s even put a ‘No Fishing’ sign over the spot.
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there’s nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.
We grew up fishing, and we take it seriously.
How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.
Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can’t understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, ‘Bring it in, I’ll eat it.’
when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.
Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.
What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.
Fishing is a… discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish.
I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.
I told a lie the other day. I said that I’d caught a ‘bunch’ of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.
Baby’s fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.
In reality, I never even got to have a Hank Williams instrument. I got a tie, a fishing lure and a check.
I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.
If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
I know that I can sing really loud. It’s like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I’ve been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks
Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they’ll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there’s some power in that.
What do I think about when I’m fishing? I don’t really know. Mate, I just think about how I’m going to catch my next fish.
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you’re fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.
I didn’t grow up in the ocean — as a matter of fact — near the ocean — I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I’m fishing.
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.
I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.–Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.
We’ve been some cool places fishing. My parents and my family all went up to Alaska. We fished for king salmon, and that was really neat.
Leave part of the yard rough. Don’t manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.
I can’t bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny depressing fishing town, all Portuguese immigrants and it’s just a humorless, dark town.
There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
To fish in troubled waters.
I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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.
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is true of fishing, too. Many men fish and leave their victims to rot and stink. But what about the fish? Has he no rights – not to be romanticized as though he were a man – but real rights?
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.
I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it’s like…you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That’s what I love to do.
I would love to do something like ‘Fishing With John.’
I know he wanted me to love fishing and hunting, and I believe that he deliberately set about to make me want to do it on my own initiative.
I’m lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I’m not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.
It’s like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don’t understand how you can live there. It’s really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there’s nothing moving. I’ve lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren’t as boring as Los Angeles.
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly‘s wing? Not if you are a McDonalds’s man.
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon
I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo – but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout – I’ve been pretty much addicted ever since.
Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing–keep writing! No one can stop you but you.
I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.
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.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
The lightly-jumping, glowrin’ trouts, That thro’ my waters play.
…there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.
There comes a time in every man‘s life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.
I’m only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.
It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.
Now, revealing that you’re a keeper is no guarantee that this guy won’t just walk away. Some men really are just sport fishing and have no intention of doing anything more than throwing back the women they bed. If this is the cae with this man, then let him walk-what do you care? He’s not the guy you’re looking for.
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That’s the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.
Think of a public library, worth more for those who cannot afford numerous books. Think of a public waterway or fishing ground. All types of commons have imputed monetary value that together comprise a source of social income. As such, the commons reduces economic inequality and insecurity in society.
People go fishing and hunting and playing basketball and hiking and skydiving and all kinds of things that can hurt you seriously, and they don’t have to stop doing that when they get older.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
I play guitar quite a bit, because I’m always in search of something. I don’t play to jam, but because I’m fishing. I’m looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I’m afraid I won’t have a need to do this any more.
Renewables need to be developed in an environmentally responsible way. And, you know, I frankly have heard criticisms from even environmentalists saying that some wind farms impact gaming and fishing patterns, whether it’s offshore or onshore.
Datin’is a lot like fishin’. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
There’s nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.
All fish are not caught with flies
I think it’s time for me to get out, because at the moment I’m only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they’re the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I’m thinking about it.
There is no such thing as too much snow.
My hobby is fishing for girls.
Wherever the trout are, it’s beautiful.
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.
Don’t wait until you retire to go fishing. Don’t even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.
My dad is very successful in his business. He’s always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.
I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn’t play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn’t go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn’t do that.
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.
I was always into playing outside as a kid; being outdoors is just a part of who I am. I owe this to both my parents, who exposed me to hunting and fishing at a young age.
My childhood was basically divided between fishing and roaming the woods and hiding out in my bedroom. Maybe things would’ve turned out differently if I’d had a TV in there; who knows.
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.
Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks… and being able to eat the fish afterwards.
The great fish eat the small.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
If we carry purism to it’s logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you’d have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I’d rather go fishing for three days.
Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.
I’ve had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father – he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
I grew up fishing, but I’m actually a bigger hunter than I am a fisher.
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
… 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.
Fishing has been part of our culture since we landed here.
Sure, I could retire anytime. I don’t need to work for money. But retire to what? Sitting around the pool reading? Or even trout fishing. I love trout fishing, and I go every time I get a chance. But a man with pride in his profession need to work.
These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say “Gone Fishin'” or “Gone Huntin'”. But what these slogans really mean is “Gone Killing.
I get to be a real adventurer with my fishing work. The acting work is free, I always say I get paid for the waiting around.
Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.
The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.
The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.
I do like going out and finding free food. I’ve done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous.
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.
I grew up spear-fishing, so I’ve always had a breath hold.
The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.
I grew up hunting and fishing, as did my family. But then I served in the military.
I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
The best largemouth bass fishing I’ve ever encountered was at Lake Huites, a vast impoundment on the outskirts of the Sierra Madre Occidentals in Sinaloa, Mexico.
I didn’t think I had time for fishing before I fished.
All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
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.
Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.
If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.
The reason I first ran for the state legislature didn’t start in a courtroom or in a lobbying firm or anywhere near Richmond, to be honest. It started in a little town on the Eastern Shore where I grew up on my family’s farm and spent a lot of time fishing and working on the Chesapeake Bay.
Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, “Pete, you think you’ve changed, but you have not.
If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
Once I retire and slow down, I don’t want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
The river , corrected the Rat, It’s my world…What it hasn’t got is not worth having.
It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish.
President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He’s going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he’s back in the National Guard.
It’s not good fishing before the net.
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.
I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper. I was a taxidermist.
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
Good things come to those who initiate.
There’s more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.
We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.
If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook.
Come warm weather, I’m going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.
Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.
It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven‘t killed a fish that I’ve caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
Rock bottom; that’s a fishing term.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Anglers…exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
Between the age of 30 and going fishing, none of my friendships had any of that magic dust of when you were young. There was a sort of functionality to them, just keeping in touch. ‘Oh, I should invite so and so, I haven’t seen them for ages.
…water that isn’t fit for trout won’t much longer be fit for us.
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
Some people build fences to keep people out and we also do things everyday to keep people close – when we play ball and go fishing with our kids, we are doing it to keep them close and fenced in. That’s how relationships are built positively – we’re using fences to tell people that we love them.
I think I fish, in part, because it’s an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.
I’ve got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I’ve learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there’s a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn’t.
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.
Our dad used to take us fishing, and I still love it.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!
If you’ve got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it’s boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)
A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.
Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.
Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.
Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
Photography’s a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn’t. It’s not just seeing. It’s feeling.
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he’ll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.
My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody – simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.
We already heard from President Macron saying he won’t let Britain leave the customs union until we get access to their fishing grounds. You can then see the complexity in future, this will go on forever.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
I don’t mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.
Flyfishing does have its social aspects – on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social – but esentially it’s a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.
As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It’s tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I’m going to keep on.
The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.
Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.
The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait – whether to fish with worms or not.
The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as ‘taboo.’ If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
I grew up fishing and hunting with my dad, knowing Garrett does that, he would fit in so well. I really like Garrett.
We like visiting beaches and seeing the area. We went to St Mawes in Cornwall with my brother recently and spent the days crabbing, mackerel fishing and having barbecues.
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth’s history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.
I didn’t really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport – we were never in front of a TV watching films.
In Portugal, my sculpture ‘She Changes‘ refers to the town’s fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.
I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
I’m really glad I had the chance to live in Jensen Beach and Stuart before everything exploded. I’m always going to be fond of that area. For me, it was a sleepy little fishing town, and it kind of represents what Florida was before the development explosion.
God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.
There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.
I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.
And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.
People want to do authentic things. They want to go horseback riding, fishing, shooting or searching for turtle nesting spots on the beach.
The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you’re on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I’m in the woods or out on the water as well.
Who hears the fishes when they cry?
[T]is not all fishing to fish.
Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other’s key.
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
In every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: ‘What was all that about, Smith? It’s fine, just get on with it.’
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you’re quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you’re going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they’re going to hit you.
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
Never leave fish to find fish.
My dad has a few boats, but I’m not into fishing.
The fun of fishing is catching ’em, not killing ’em.
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman’s job is simple: Pick out the best parts.
I’m not perfect and I know it. I’ve done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days – big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don’t kill warm-blooded animals any more – I make an exception with birds sometimes.
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn’t be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .
Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I’d rather go fishing for three years.
