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Quotes About Fishing

My biggest regret in life - well, one of them - is that I wasn't muskie fishing from '92 to '96 when I was not married.
~ Christian Laettner
I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
~ Jack Nicklaus
We intend to bring fun and family activities to the American market from Down Under, where we believe we have some of the best fishing in the world and the best conservative approach to fishing through catch, kiss, and release.
~ Rex Hunt
But I love to fish - that's a hobby of mine.
~ Avery Bradley
I like to fish when it's not too hot.
~ Josh Turner
It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
~ Jim Dale
I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
~ Terry Bradshaw
As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish.
~ Anita Bryant
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
~ Chris Evans
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.
~ Loretta Napoleoni
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.
~ Steve Albini
I didn't want to miss that opportunity to be able to enjoy an afternoon fishing with my dad which is something we had done growing up a ton of times on Lake Michigan and it was funny that it kind of turned into an attention thing than I expected and even more than if I would have gone to the draft.
~ Joe Thomas
The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.
~ Rick Barry
Who's Beth?" Keri asked. "The bartender at your wedding." "Oh, that's right. How could I forget when my husband almost got thrown out of our own reception for trying to hire her like a hooker or something." "What's a hooker?" Bobby asked. Keri's island tan flushed pink. "Oops." "You put it on the end of a fishing pole, dummy," Brian explained. Bobby frowned. "Uncle Joe tried to hire a worm?
~ Shannon Stacey
Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
~ Faith Baldwin
I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.
~ Perry Como
trout and a flounder
~ Mary Kay Andrews
I loved fishing those old mud-bottomed ponds. Partly because she would be proud of whatever I dragged out, but also I just loved sitting still. You could smell leaves rotting into the cool mud and watch the Jesus bugs walk on the water, their four little feet making dents in the surface but never falling through. And sometimes you'd see the big ones, the ones nobody was ever going to hook, slipping away under the water like dark-brown dreams.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I'm a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.
~ Travis Fimmel
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
Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
~ Martial
Both of us have been buying our salmon from a wonderful company called Vital Choice for many years. Vital Choice is run by third-generation Alaskan fishermen who are scrupulous about using sustainable fishing and equally scrupulous about testing their fish thoroughly for contaminants and metals. They ship in dry ice, and they have the best fish we've ever tasted. Fast
~ Jonny Bowden
I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
~ Joseph Barbera