Fishing Quotes - Page 20

• Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Half, Industry, New Zealand

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

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• . . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

  Andrew Lang

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Rivers, Lakes, Blood

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

  John Gay

  Powerful, Sea, Rivers

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

  Robert Hughes

  Sports, Football, Sea

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.300, Vintage

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• ...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

  Tom Sutcliffe

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

  John McPhee

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  John McPhee (2003). “The Founding Fish”, p.330, Macmillan

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• If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.

  Avi Lewis

  Fighting, Hunting, Animal

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

  William T. Vollmann

  Hunting, Yards, Hours

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.

  Loral Langemeier

  Nice, Men, Car

  Loral Langemeier (2013). “The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating Cash with Wealth Cycle Investing”, p.228, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family. I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

  Jase Robertson

  Simple, Love Is, Hunting

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• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  Paul Watson

  Would Be, Chance, Fisherman

  "Sea Shepherd: how we sank the Japanese whaling fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.

  Ed Zern

  Believe, Sea, Rivers

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• There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

  Arthur Ransome

  Sea, Two, Rivers

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• A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

  Robbie Keane

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sea, Sky, Rivers

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• The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Memories, Grateful, Sea

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• Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Strong, Kids, Years

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• I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Dark, Night, Sea

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• A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite

  Robert Ruark

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

  Arthur Ransome

  Summer, Book, Winter

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Rivers

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• Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

  Patrick F. McManus

  Winter, Men, Lakes

  Patrick F. McManus (1982). “They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?”, p.26, Macmillan

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• The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

  Charles Ritz

  Lakes, Sea, Skills

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