Fishing Quotes - Page 9

It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn't hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

The great fish eat the small.

Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

I have other fish to fry.

Just another cold, misty morning inviting, "want to go again?"

The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

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.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

Best fishing in troubled waters.