| "When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing." ~Howell Raines author of Fly Fishing Through The Midlife Crisis in 1993 |
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. ~Author Unknown |
I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977 |
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. ~Patrick F. McManus |
All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. ~Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969 |
...this planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. ~Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. |
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway |
| "Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration." - Izaac Walton |
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best |
"Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it." - Ed Zern |
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. ~Babylonian Proverb |
| "Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up." - Arnold Gingrich |
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau |
| "The best time to go fishing is when you can get away". - Robert Traver |
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ~Author Unknown |
"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." - Whitey Herzog |
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery |
"All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight." -Â John Steinbeck |
| | All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949 |
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt |
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson |
| May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing |
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965 |
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ~Steven Wright |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan |
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. ~Herbert Hoover |
| Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark |
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. ~Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946
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"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes." - Don Marquis |
"These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't get close enough to present it."Â - Dick Blalock |
An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown |
"For the supreme test of a fisherman is not how many fish he has caught, not even how he has caught them, but what he has caught when he has caught no fish." - John H. Bradley |
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Author Unknown |
| "Fishing with shrimp is like sleeping with your sister. It was ok when you were a kid!" ~Captain Pete Greenan |
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