Fishing Sayings And Quotes

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“Fishing costs like sin but requires heavier clothing.”
– L. C. Clower

“I only make movies to finance my fishing.”
– Lee Marvin

“Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.”
– Lee Wulff

“The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn’t someone else’s gift to you?”
– Lee Wulff

“Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?”
– Lee Wulff

“Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.”
– Lefty Kreh

“There’s more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.”
– Lefty Kreh

“This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish.”
– Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

“By the time I had turned thirty, I’d realized two important things. One, I had to fish. Two, I had to work for a living.”
– Mallory Burton

“Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.”
– Mario Lopez

“Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.”
– Mark Twain

“You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don’t want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“Never leave fish to find fish.”
– Moses

“In the best stories about fly fishing … big fish are caught or lost; people say wild and spontaneous words; event becomes memory and sometimes, in the hands of a master, bleeds into art.”
– Nick Lyons

“The season is ended.  There was not enough of it; there never is.”
– Nick Lyons

“I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.”
– Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers

“When I go fishing I like to know that there’s nobody within five miles of me.”
– Norman MacCaig

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.  I am haunted by waters.”
– Norman Maclean

“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.”
– Norman Maclean

“If our father had his say, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.”
– Norman Maclean

“Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.”
– Norman Maclean

“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.”
– Norman Maclean

“Poets talk about “spots of time”, but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.”
– Norman Mclean

“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.”
– Patrick F. McManus

“The two best times to fish is when it’s rainin’ and when it ain’t.”
– Patrick F. McManus

“Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain’t got no smoked salmon.”
– Patrick F. McManus

“There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.”
– Patrick F. McManus

“There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.”
– Paul O’Neil

“I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout.”
– Paul O’Neil

“There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.”
– Paul O’Neil

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