Fishing Quotes

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

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.

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

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?

Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods.

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

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

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

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.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

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.

If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream,
but I have found that for some strange reason,
fish prefer worms.
So when I went fishing,
I didn’t think about what I wanted.
I thought about what they wanted.
I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream.
Rather,
I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

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.

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

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

I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.