Fishing Sayings And Quotes

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“Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.”
– Paul Schullery

“I frankly don’t make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.”
– Jack Gartside

“Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to ‘fish fine and far off,’ but no one has ever improved on that statement.”
– John Gierach

“Man can learn a lot from fishing — when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.”
– Orlando Battista

“All I can say to the kids is if you’ve a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you’re gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they’ve been through the same thing.”
– Rex Hunt

“Never throw a long line when a short one will serve your purpose.”
– Richard Penn

“I love fishing.  You put that line in the water and you don’t know what’s on the other end.  Your imagination is under there.”
– Robert Altman

“To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.”
– Robert Traver

“I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.”
– Roderick Haig-Brown

“There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.”
– Roderick Haig-Brown

“Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.”
– Roderick Haig-Brown

“There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse.  Either is a gain over just staying home.”
– Roderick Haig-Brown

“The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.”
– Sam Snead

“You cannot catch trout with dry breeches.”
– Spanish Proverb

“Fish are, of course, indispensable to the angler.  They give him an excuse for fishing and justify the fly rod without which he would be a mere vagrant.”
– Sparse Grey Hackle

“The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able.”
– Sparse Grey Hackle

“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali.  He was using a dotted line.  He caught every other fish.”
– Steven Wright

“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
– Steven Wright

“What are more delightful than one’s emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?”
– T. Nash Buckingham

“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.”
– Ted Hughes

“It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.”
– Theodore Gordon

“The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.”
– Theodore Gordon

“Angling is extremely time consuming. That’s sort of the whole point”
– Thomas McGuane

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
– Thoreau

“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
– Tom Brokaw

“Carpe Diem” does not mean “fish of the day.” 
– Unknown

“An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won’t let him do it at home.”
– Unknown

“Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts.  Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all.  This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water.”
– Unknown

“Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.”
– Unknown

“Even if you’ve been fishing for three hours and haven’t gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you’re still better off than the worm.”
– Unknown

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