Quotes and Sayings About Fishing
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The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
-- A. Best -
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.
-- Achim Steiner -
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
-- Aldo Leopold -
If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
-- Andrew Stanton -
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
-- Aneurin BevanSource : Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945
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Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
-- Ann Landers -
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
-- Anthony Doerr -
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
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...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.
-- Arnold GingrichSource : Arnold Gingrich (1973). “The Joys of Trout”
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I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
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 -
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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 -
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.
-- Arthur Ransome -
Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.
-- Behati Prinsloo -
My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.
-- Ben Crenshaw -
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Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
-- Bill Barich -
I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.
-- Bill BarichSource : Bill Barich (2015). “Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again”, p.188, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
-- Bill Drayton -
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It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry
-- Bill Drayton -
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
-- Billy Collins -
I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.
-- Billy Connolly -
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.
-- Bob Gibson -
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Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
-- Bobby Flay -
The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.
-- Bobby Jindal