Fishing Quotes - Page 9

• The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

  John Gierach

  Mistake, Lakes, Sea

  "Fly-fishing the High Country". Book by John Gierach, 1984.

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• 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

  Trout, Forget You, Fit

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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

  Thomas McGuane

  Trout, Consuming, Angling

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

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• The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

  Eugene Field

  Caught, Fishes

  Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.142, tredition

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

  A. Best

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• 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

  Thinking, Long, Enough

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• Best fishing in troubled waters.

  John Harington

  Water, Troubled Waters

  "Orlando Furioso". 1591.

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

  Tony Horton

  People, Aging, Bumper Sticker

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• Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Lakes, Sea

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.35, University of Arkansas Press

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• Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

  Charlie Sheen

  Rocks, Term, Bottom

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs Interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

  Carl Safina

  Thinking, Two, Casting

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.130, Macmillan

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

  Patrick F. McManus

  Tourists, Insects, Term

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• 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

  Tragedy, Life Is, Whole Life

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• A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Simple, Sea, Water

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• Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

  Ted Trueblood

  Running, Opportunity, Vacation

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• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.91, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Dream, Men, Rivers

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• People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

  Sylvia Earle

  People, Technique, Balls

  "Can We Stop Killing Our Oceans Now, Please?" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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  Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

  Nick Offerman

  Life Changing, Men, Teach A Man To Fish

  "Fictional character: Ron Swanson". Parks and Recreation (TV Series). Telethon, www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

  Harold Russell

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3945, e-artnow

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• Flyfishing, which has a vaguely mystical aura, is a lot like work. I'm a frenetic flyfisherman. I wade up and down streams, looking for good spots, usually falling and breaking some piece of equipment. Or I stand still and work myself into a frenzy about what fly I should use. I love fishing, but it has never given me a moments peace.

  James P. Gorman

  Fall, Sea, Rivers

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