Fishing Quotes - Page 15

• I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

  Charlie Sheen

  Believe, Rocks, Term

  "Watch Charlie Sheen's Entire Insane TMZ Poolside Interview". gawker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Lakes, Air, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Perry Como

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Waiting, Desire

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• Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

  Marian Burros

  Children, Hate, Beef

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• One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

  Norman Maclean

  World, Fly Fishing, Great Things

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.18, University of Chicago Press

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• Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

  Barbara Johnson

  Home, Son, Boys

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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Artist, Men, Lakes

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

  Scotty McCreery

  Boys, Keys, North Carolina

  "Scotty McCreery: Celebrity On Campus" by Emily Laurence, Slide 3, www.seventeen.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

  John Ford

  War, Taken, Drunk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

  Jack Nicklaus

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Attitude, People, Catholic

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2008.

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• The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  Juxtaposition, Touring, Greater

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• Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

  Mao Zedong

  Rain, Ocean, Moving

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• O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Doubt, Trout

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

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• Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

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• On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

  John Hillaby

  Air, Water, Miracle

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• There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.

  Howard Frank Mosher

  Water, Size, Trout

  Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

  Theodore Gordon

  Past, Sea, Rivers

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Bait, Hook

  "The Art of Seeing Things: Essays".

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• Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

  Tim Rice

  Fighting, Sticks, Obsessed

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• Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

  Robert Ruark

  Gun, Men, Hunting

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• In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Twilight, Hunting, Circles

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• Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.

  Gene Hill

  Kids, Hunting, Weather

  Gene Hill (1985). “A Listening Walk --and Other Stories”, p.109, Academic Learning Company LLC

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