Fishing Quotes - Page 27

• I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

  Ed Weeks

  Strong, Sea, Rivers

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• ...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

  Arthur Ransome

  Book, Reading, Rivers

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

  John D. Voelker

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• 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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• It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

  Ed Zern

  Lakes, Sea, 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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• Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

  Ed Zern

  Grateful, Cutting, Lakes

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• . . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

  Rex Hunt

  Beautiful, Kids, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

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• Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.

  Lee Wulff

  Lying, Lakes, Sea

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

  Arthur Ransome

  Flower, Golf, Men

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• Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

  Lewis Carroll

  Home, Lakes, Sea

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.

  Bliss Perry

  Art, Philosophy, Lakes

  Bliss Perry (1916). “Fishing with a Worm”

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• Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

  John D. Voelker

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.

  Ray Bergman

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

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• As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

  Paul Schullery

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.4, UNM Press

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• The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are very important in that they make it easier to do the things which bring success and in some cases are essential to success.

  Ray Bergman

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”

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• Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

  Ed Zern

  Sports, Lakes, Sea

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• And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

  Juliana Berners

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sea, Two, Rivers

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.297, Diderot Publishing

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• You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

  Thomas McGuane

  Sports, Kings, Lakes

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• (with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement

  Russell Chatham

  Lakes, Sea, Cities

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• It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Running, Sweet, Spring

  R. D. Blackmore (2015). “Crocker's Hole: From "Slain by the Doones"”, p.4, The Floating Press

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