Fishing Quotes - Page 3

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, “Don't forget your waders.'

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

My hobby is fishing for girls.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'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.

Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts.

Never leave fish to find fish.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.