Fishing Quotes - Page 4

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

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.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

There many guys out there who are actually fishing for a woman whom they are planning on keeping. But there are guys out there who are just sports fishing - catching them and then throwing them back into the ocean.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

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)

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.