quotations about fishing
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
Esquire, Mar. 2004
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
I'm going fishing
I got me a line
Nothin' I do's gonna make the difference
So I'm taking the time
CHRIS REA
"Gone Fishing"
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quote Unquote
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Man cannot be successful in business and in fishing at the same time.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
TOM BROKAW
International Herald Tribune, September 10, 1991
Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
WILLIAM SHERWOOD FOX
Silken Lines and Silver Hooks
I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.
CRAIG FERGUSON
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades -- I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
THOMAS EDISON
diary entry, Jul. 17, 1885
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
attributed, Chop Wood
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
STEVEN WRIGHT
attributed, Return of the Portable Curmudgeon
The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.
WILLIAM BASSE
The Angler's Song
Getting kids hooked on fishing is about getting a fish on the line fast.
MIKE DEMICK
"Top 10 tips for fishing with kids", Idaho State Journal, May 23, 2019
The fish you don't catch is always the biggest.
KOBO ABE
The Woman in the Dunes
Best fishing in troubled waters.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON
Orlando Furioso
Early in the morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with fishing-reels and slender lunch, and let down their fine lines through the snowy field to take pickerel and perch; wild men, who instinctively follow other fashions and trust other authorities than their townsmen, and by their goings and comings stitch towns together in parts where else they would be ripped. They sit and eat their luncheon in stout fear-naughts on the dry oak leaves on the shore, as wise in natural lore as the citizen is in artificial.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
The joy of game fishing is that it can be blissfully indiscriminate. A complete novice could inadvertently find himself on the business-end of the world's most acrobatic and hardest-fighting fish -- a sensation which is like a learner-driver suddenly finding himself behind the wheel of a racing Ferrari, with his foot pushed flat to the floor.
LEN CACUTT
The Big-Game Fishing Handbook