Fishing Quotes - Page 29

• The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

  Thomas McGuane

  Believe, Lakes, Sea

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.69, Vintage

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• when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

  Carol O'Connell

  Information, Internet, Fishes

  Carol O'Connell (1995). “Mallory's Oracle”, p.64, Penguin

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• When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

  Max Hastings

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Alaska, Missing

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Lakes, Race

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• Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

  Norman Mailer

  Girl, Running, Two

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.519, Harvard University Press

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• I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

  Henry Winkler

  Believe, Lakes, Sea

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• Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• ...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

  Ed Zern

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.

  John Gierach

  Fun, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• ... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Thinking, Lakes

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• The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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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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• Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

  Steve Earle

  Lakes, Hands, Sea

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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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• If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

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• Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.

  Jack Ohman

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

  John Gierach

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2011). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

  Justin Cronin

  Silly, Lakes, Hair

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.82, Dial Press

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• Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

  Herbert Hoover

  Prayer, Lakes, Sea

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• In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

  Thomas McGuane

  Running, Fun, Mean

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.6, Vintage

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