Great Fishing Quotes

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

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

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.

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

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

Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

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

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

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

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Never leave fish to find fish.

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

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?

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

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

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.

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

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.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

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

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

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

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.

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

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

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

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.

All men are equal before fish.

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

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

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

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.

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I don't know what's on the other side.

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.