Great Fishing Quotes:

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

- Arnold Gingrich

topic: Fun, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Funny Fishing, Great Fishing

Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

- Woody Allen

topic: Sex, Fun, Laughing, Good Sex, Great Golf

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

- Norman Maclean

source: Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

topic: Perfect, Waiting, World, Great Fishing

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

- Norman Maclean

source: "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

topic: Running, Rivers, Lakes And Rivers, Water Fountain, Water Is Life

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

- Thomas McGuane

source: Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

topic: Consuming, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing, Time Consuming, Trout Fishing

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

- Izaak Walton

source: 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

topic: Learning, Fishing, May, Math Is Like, Mathematics And Science

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Time, Fishing, Streams, Walden Pond, Fly Fishing

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

- John Ruskin

topic: Powerful, Rivers, Lakes, Fish Tanks, Angling

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Fun, Writing, Evolution, Good Sex, Great Golf

All men are equal before fish.

- Herbert Hoover

topic: Funny, Witty, Laughter, Shimmer, Meekness

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

- Horace Greeley

topic: Fire, Smoking, Fool, Smokers, Cigarette Smoke

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

- Theodore Gordon

source: Theodore Gordon, Paul Schullery (2007). “Theodore Gordon on Trout: Talks and Tales from a Great American Angler”, p.52, Stackpole Books

topic: Real, Fishing, Air, Great Fishing

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

- Lefty Kreh

topic: Fishing, Kansas, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

- Izaak Walton

source: Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

topic: Art, Doubt, Trout, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

- Arnold Gingrich

topic: Partners, Fishes, Quarry, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

- Tony Horton

topic: People, Aging, Angling, Great Fishing, Bumper

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: "Anna Karenina".

topic: Stupid, Pride, Fishing, Great Fishing

Never leave fish to find fish.

- Moses

topic: Fishing, Fishes, Great Fishing, Trout Fishing

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

- Whitey Herzog

source: Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

topic: Stars, Winning, Years, All Stars, Great Fishing

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

- Nash Buckingham

topic: Fishing, Trout, Emotion, Great Fishing, Trout Fishing

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

- Patrick F. McManus

topic: Tourists, Insects, Term, Funny Fishing, Angling

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

- John Buchan

source: John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

topic: Fishing, Charm, Pursuit, Elusive, Funny Fish

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

- John Gierach

source: John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fishing, People, Away From You, Great Fishing

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

- Dave Mustaine

topic: Fishing, People, Bars, Funny Bumper Sticker, Angling

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

- Jack Gartside

topic: Fishing, Hell, Great Fishing, Trout Fishing

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

- Patrick F. McManus

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

topic: Fishing, Taste, Salmon, Carp, Angling

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

- Gwen Cooper

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

topic: Men, Wife, Fishes, Great Fishing

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.

- Izaak Walton

source: "The Compleat Angler".

topic: Wise, Men, Rivers, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing

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

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

topic: Fishing, Water, Gone, Fly Fishing, Unlucky

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

- Roderick Haig-Brown

topic: Regret, Fishing, Remember, Fly Fishing, Angling

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

- Zane Grey

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

topic: Fishing, Long, Capture, Fly Fishing, Funny Fish

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

topic: Home, Optimistic, Fishing, Angling, Great Fishing

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

- Steven Wright

topic: Sarcastic, Sports, Fun, Hunting And Fishing, Fly Fishing

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

- Washington Irving

topic: Serenity, Mind, Produce, Great Fishing, Trout Fishing

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

- A. Best

topic: Fishing, Catching, Fly Fishing, Catching Fish, Funny Fish

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Stress, Fishing, People, Hunting And Fishing, Stress And Life

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

- Heraclitus

topic: Journey, Men, Rivers, My Journey, Beautiful River

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

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports, Hunting And Fishing, Fly Fishing

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

- Herbert Hoover

topic: Sea, Fishing, Rivers, Hunting And Fishing, Fishing Boats

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

topic: Fishing, Problem, Should, Work Love, Funny Fishing

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

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

topic: Fishing, Giving, Finest, Fly Fishing, Catching Fish

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

- Izaak Walton

topic: Fishing, Life Is, Anglers, Angling, Great Fishing

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

- Will Rogers

topic: Fishing, World, Would Be, Great Fishing

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

- Ann Landers

topic: Home, Men, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Catching Fish

In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.

- Ray Bergman

source: 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”

topic: Memories, Fishing, Gone, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

- Herbert Hoover

topic: Men, Fishing, Hours, Funny Fish, Funny Fishing

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

- Robert Altman

source: "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Sea, Fishing, Rivers, Fly Fishing, Funny Fish

I don't know what's on the other side.

- Patrick Swayze

topic: Sides, Adjustment, Funny Fish, Funny Fishing, Romance Movie

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

- Patrick F. McManus

source: Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.20, Macmillan

topic: Men, Fishing, Long, Fly Fishing, Angling