Fishing Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger.”
– Herbert Hoover

“Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.”
– Herbert Hoover

“Fishing adds years to your life, and life to your years.”
– Homer Circle

“May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.”
– Irish Blessing

“I have laid aside business, and gone a’fishing.”
– Izaak Walton

“Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so…”
– Izaak Walton

“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”
– Izaak Walton

“No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern’d angler.”
– Izaak Walton

“As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.”
– Jack Handey

“When you are on the river, ocean or in the woods, you are the closest to the truth you’ll ever get.”
– Jack Leonard

“If you’ve got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.”
– Jack Ohman

“Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls…”
– Jim Harrison

“Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.”
– Jimmy D Moore

“Put backing on your line; even if you never use it. It helps you dream.”
– Jimmy D Moore

“It’s better to be the fisherman than the rower.”
– Joan Wulff

“One thing becomes clearer as one gets older and one’s fishing experience increases, and that is the paramount importance of one’s fishing companions.”
– John Ashley-Cooper

“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

“Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.”
– John Gierach

“The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.”
– John Gierach

“I think I fish, in part, because it’s an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.”
– John Gierach

“I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it’s the one thing I can think of that probably doesn’t.”
– John Gierach

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

“The solution to any problem –work, love, money, whatever –is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.”
– John Gierach

“I salute the gallantry and uncompromising standards of wild trout, and their tastes in landscapes.”
– John Madson

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.”
– John Steinbeck

“Most fishermen swiftly learn that it’s a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn’t trust with your wife.”
– John Voelker

“In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.”
– Jose Simon

“I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.”
– Joseph Monniger

“I’ve got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I’ve learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there’s a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn’t.”
– Kevin VanDam

“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

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