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Quotes About Fishing

I was born in Grimsby and always lived around there, but it's died a death because of the loss of the fishing industry.
~ Guy Martin
Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'
~ Mark Noble
I was happy working on my golf and doing a bit of fishing.
~ Steve Clarke
My dad has a few boats, but I'm not into fishing.
~ Gylfi Sigurdsson
I gave up fishing in England. It got too crowded.
~ Jeremy Wade
I get to be a real adventurer with my fishing work. The acting work is free, I always say I get paid for the waiting around.
~ Robson Green
I'm delighted to have been accepted into the U.S.A. with my fishing program after its success in Australia and throughout the U.K., Europe, and Asia.
~ Rex Hunt
I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.
~ Johnny Miller
I love muskie fishing in the summer time.
~ Christian Laettner
If commercial fishing were excluded from large areas of the sea, the total catch would be likely, paradoxically, to rise, due to what biologists call the spillover effect.
~ George Monbiot
What do I think about when I'm fishing? I don't really know. Mate, I just think about how I'm going to catch my next fish.
~ Jimmy Bullard
I really enjoy fishing. It's one of those things you have to get in your element for.
~ Luke Kuechly
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
~ Norman MacCaig
We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.
~ Peter Singer
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.
~ Peter Singer
I'm a Hemingway fan, so in a manner of speaking, I've been fishing with him already. But man, would I love to board Pilar in Key West and head south until we have a day-long battle with a tarpon, haul that bad boy up, then celebrate by telling lies over rum on a Cuban terrace.
~ Marcus Sakey
Farming and fishing are the major causes of the collapse of both marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Meat - consumed in greater quantities by the rich than by the poor - is the strongest cause of all.
~ George Monbiot
I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn't have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers' conference.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
~ Lela Loren
Fishing and ear scratching. The two reasons men were given hands.
~ Robin Hobb
you know no one wanted to see the old boy go. I bet where ever he is, the fishing's good" "Given his surely behavior, the fish might be fried where he is,
~ Robyn Carr
His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.
~ Louise Erdrich
Do you intend to go fishing, Oscar?" "No idea. But I can't travel to Scotland without my rod. It would be almost sacrilegious.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Where are the fish, though? In the sea they say, in the boats we pray, said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.
~ Rudyard Kipling