fishing quotes

[Paul J]

 

some good ones here:

 

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown

 

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. ~Author Unknown

 

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. ~Author Unknown

 

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing

 

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. ~Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969

 

 

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway

 

 

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best

 

 

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

 

 

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck

 

 

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ~Author Unknown

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949

 

 

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown

 

 

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

 

 

We ask a simple question

And that is all we wish:

Are fishermen all liars?

Or do only liars fish?

~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

 

The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly. ~Author Unknown

 

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

 

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Schaffer

 

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

 

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

 

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery

 

...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

 

...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949

 

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. ~Charles Haas

 

I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout... ~Paul O'Neil

 

Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm. ~Author Unknown

 

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark

 

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... ~Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991

 

There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ~Miguel de Cervantes

 

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979

 

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing. ~Ed Zern, 1947

 

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. ~Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946

 

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

 

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

 

Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown

 

"Carpe Diem" does not mean "fish of the day." ~Author Unknown

 

Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty! ~Author Unknown

 

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. ~George Herbert

 

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly. ~Jack Ohman, Fear of Fly Fishing, 1988

 

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Author Unknown

 

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. ~Author Unknown

 

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt

 

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

 

Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts. Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all. This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water. ~Author Unknown

 

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, Fisherman's Spring, 1951

 

 

 

[pirky]

Blimey Paul......where do you find the time ???

 

Dave

[plaicemat]

Very comprehensive list, Paul. If you collected them yourself, I'm impressed.

 

Terry.

[Graham Nash]

"Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught" How very true.

 

Some real crackers there Paul.

 

Made me smile. Thanks.

[great white]

I like these two

 

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark

 

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979

 

 

[Brian]

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.

It's a lucky man who can convince his wife of this fact!!!!

[Jim]

My Favourite ? ? ?

 

 

 

 

 

The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly.

 

 

 

Jim

[Rob]

Nice work Jim!!!

 

[wrasster]

 

 

Great list - and amazing research!

 

Guess which my favourite is - being a fisherman's wife?

 

A fisherman's greatest fear . . .

 

Mrs. Wrasster

Edited August 5, 2010 by wrasster