Great Fishing Quotes - Page 2

• Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Fishing, Salmon, Taste

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Men, Lakes

  "The Compleat Angler".

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• Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

  Gwen Cooper

  Men, Fishing, Wife

  Gwen Cooper, Evelyn Haas (1989). “Wade a little deeper, dear: a woman's guide to fly fishing”, Lyons Press

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• I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

  Jack Gartside

  Fishing, Hell, Trout Fishing

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• There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Home, Optimistic, Fishing

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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  No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Journey, Men

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• The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

  A. Best

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Trout, Problem

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Fishing, Trout

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Regret, Fishing, Remember

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• I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

  William G. Tapply

  Fishing, Water, Gone

  William G. Tapply (1997). “A Fly-Fishing Life”

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• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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• If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

  Will Rogers

  Fishing, Would Be, World

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• Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Sea

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• The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

  Lee Wulff

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

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

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• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

  William Cowper Prime

  Fishing, Doe, Sake

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143

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• Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Fishing, Long

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• Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Long, Trout

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Years, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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