Fishing Quotes
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Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.
Gary Gait
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I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop for dresses.
Jordan Pruitt
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon
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I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.
John Rocha
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The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.
William G. Tapply
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Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
George Archer
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We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.
William Cowper Prime
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Some people build fences to keep people out and we also do things everyday to keep people close - when we play ball and go fishing with our kids, we are doing it to keep them close and fenced in. That's how relationships are built positively - we're using fences to tell people that we love them.
Russell Hornsby
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I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
Arnold Gingrich
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Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.
Arnold Gingrich
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And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.
Rex Hunt
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About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.
Arnold Gingrich
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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Saltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's like sex after lunch.
Charles Ritz
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright
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In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.
Charles Best
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I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.
Martin Milner
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when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.
Carol O'Connell
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I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.
Joseph Monninger
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In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.
William Bernard Ziff, Jr.
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There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.
William Cowper Prime
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.
Jesse Livermore