Fishing Quotes - Page 25

• I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

  Howell Raines

  Silly, Rivers, Lakes

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• I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lakes, Wind, Sea

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.907, Delphi Classics

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• Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

  Pablo Neruda

  Rivers, Lakes, Hands

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• The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

  Robert Burns

  Lakes, Jumping, Sea

  Robert Burns (1868). “Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns”, p.98

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• The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sweet, Rivers, Lakes

  Leigh Hunt, David Jesson-Dibley (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Psychology Press

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• Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

  Daniel Lanois

  Daughter, Rain, Rivers

  Song: Fisherman's Daughter, Album: Acadie, 2008

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• The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

  Robert Burns

  Art, Rivers, Lakes

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

  David James Duncan

  Grateful, Book, Lakes

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• All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

  John Keats

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.91, Harvard University Press

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• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  "Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington. Introduction to the book, 1937.

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• Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Rivers, White

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• Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

  Tony Bishop

  Beach, Moving, Sea

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• Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Simple, Rivers

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• The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

  Theodore Gordon

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

  John D. Voelker

  Careers, Rivers, Lakes

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• The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Sports, Dream, Sleep

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• Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely

  Ray Bergman

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success

  Ray Bergman

  Believe, Sea, Rivers

  Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.360, Derrydale Press

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• Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated

  Ray Bergman

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.359, Derrydale Press

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• As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow

  Ray Bergman

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.355, Derrydale Press

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• I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

  Joseph Monninger

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunting, Rivers, Lakes

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• Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

  John Gierach

  Beautiful, Sports, Sea

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