Fishing Quotes - Page 13

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

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.

To fish in troubled waters.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.

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.

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.