The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. — A. Best
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. — Arnold Gingrich
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time. — Zane Grey
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
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 two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't. — Patrick F. McManus
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! — Frank Gorshin
One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing — Norman Maclean
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. — Charles W. Waterman
Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Izaak Walton
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. — Ovid
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. — William G. Tapply
Short Great Fishing Quotes
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once. — Lee Wulff
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. — Steven Wright
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. — Izaak Walton
You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface. — Andy Gilbert
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. — Paul Schullery
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. — Ovid
A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau
The best fish hook cannot catch limp cheese — Greek Proverbs
Silence is a source of great strength.
Good Fishing Quotes
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings
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? — Lee Wulff
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. — Norman Maclean
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. — Lewis Carroll
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? — Aldo Leopold
Fishing Day Quotes
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. — Benjamin Franklin
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. — Norman Maclean
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. — Patrick Young
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. — Vladimir Nabokov
Fish and guests smell when they are three days old. — Indian Proverbs
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. — Benjamin Disraeli
Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink. — Bobby Heenan
I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day. — Xiaolu Guo
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. — Theodore Gordon
Fishing Quotes
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. — Idi Amin
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author
The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish. — Otto von Bismarck
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau
Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God. — Kabir
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane
Hunting And Fishing Quotes
'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.' — Robert Ruark
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. — Fred Bear
To a great mind, nothing is little.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. — Aldo Leopold
Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person. — Fred Bear
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. — Steve Albini
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship. — Louis Bacon
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. — Douglass North
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters. — Archibald Rutledge
Trout Fishing Quotes
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. — John Gierach
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. — John Gierach
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. — John Gierach
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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. — John Gierach
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface. — Edward Abbey
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas Mcguane
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. — Alexander Pope
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip. — John Gierach
I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life. — Jack Gartside
Catching Fish Quotes
If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub. — Reinhard Bonnke
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. — John Gierach
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries. — Jim Gerlach
If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea — Greek Proverbs
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful. — David Lynch
Without hard work, you won't even catch a fish from the pond. — Russian Proverbs
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out. — Louis C. K.
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale. — William Carlos Williams
The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, humankind to himself. — Indian Proverbs
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One — Said Nursi
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. — William Shakespeare
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 — Norman Maclean
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong. — John Gierach
Men are like fish; the great ones devour the small. — Hungarian Proverbs
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. — Patrick F. McManus
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt. — Cat Cora
Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. — Zora Neale Hurston
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. — John Gierach
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton
Aging is for people who don't know any better. — Tony Horton
Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in! — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line. — Arthur Lismer
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone
Never leave fish to find fish. — Moses
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. — Og Mandino
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air. — Theodore Gordon
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. — John Ruskin
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