“I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful... and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant—and not nearly so much fun."
John Voelker, a.k.a. Robert Traver, author of Anatomy of a Murder |
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.
~Author Unknown
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
~Author Unknown
All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. ~Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
~Washington Irving
Somebody just to the back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
~Ernest Hemingway
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
~Babylonian Proverb
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
~Henry David Thoreau
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.
~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949
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.
~Author Unknown
We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish?
~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
~Steven Wright
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
~Paul Schullery
...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.
~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout...
~Paul O'Neil
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
~Chuck Clark
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
~Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979
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, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946
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, Fear of Fly Fishing, 1988
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
~Author Unknown
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.
~Author Unknown
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, Fisherman's Spring, 1951
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
~Isaak Walton
The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't.
~Patrick F MacManus
In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing.
~Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976
Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God.
~Tony Blake
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