Quotes About Angler

In this book, Doc Ford references "snag fishing" for tarpon in Boca Grande Pass on Florida's Gulf Coast. Thanks to Kenneth W. Wright—Florida Environmentalist of the Decade, in the minds of many anglers—this "jigging" technique has finally been exposed as a fraud. Mr. Wright, and a group of knowledgeable

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

An excellent angler, and now with God.

If you wonder why a man would shave before spending all day in his bass boat, you have never seen an angler's face projected in high-def on the JumboTron at a Classic weigh-in.

Every aspect of every minute of the day--rain without surcease spilling out of the black and liquid sky; sloughed, fierce sweeps of wind; the swollen, silt-ridden, ever-swiftening river; the torturing midges; the ghostly mists like amorphous shifts of sorrow--all had acted in perfect scheme to chasten desire. Nought, though, can ever fully dry the angler's heart of it.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

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.

The perfect way for an angler who loves to cook to show off his fish is serving it whole, fresh off the grill, with crispy skin and moist flesh. Problem is, that's not usually how it happens.

She laughed. 'I hope he will enjoy good sport– though my small experience informs me that catching fish is not necessary for your true angler's enjoyment.' 'Oh, no! But to lose a fish is quite another matter!' 'Certainly! One cannot wonder that it should cast even the most cheerful person into gloom, for it is always such an enormous one that escapes!' 'I begin to think you are yourself an angler, ma'am: you are so exactly right!

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

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

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.

I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.

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