Quotes About Fishing

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Cheeca Lodge on Islamorada.

I like to fish. I always go when I'm on holidays in Spain.

One of the sports I do - my wife thinks I'm nuts - is open-water spear fishing, what we call blue-water hunting. We get in a boat, and we go offshore, normally about 30 miles. So when you jump off the boat, there are no reefs, and the bottom is no longer fifty or a hundred feet: it's thousands of feet. It's sort of like being in outer space.

I've never caught muskie. That would be quite special.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Going shopping with your husband is like his going fishing with the game warden.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

I imagine that Carlos knew that Jack was ex-military when he was searching for idiots to go to Cuba, and I also wondered if Jack would be up for a late-in-life adventure. Carlos said that Jack's life would not be in danger, which was true regarding the fishing tournament, but not true regarding sailing out of Cuba with sixty million bucks onboard if Cuban gunboats were on our ass. If we made it that far.

If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

We've fished down in Naples, Florida. We've fished out in Idaho. We've been everywhere fishing, and I think the best part of it is that it brings my family together and it gives us an opportunity to be around each other.

NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.

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

Here's to the fish he caught, Here's to the one that got away, And here's to the one he bought.

A plain and simple answer for This riddle's what we wish: Does fishing make men liars, or Do only liars fish?

ANGLER: A man who spends rainy days sitting round on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.

Gone fishin' — Be back at dark-thirty!

Enjoy thy stream, then, harmless fish; And, when an angler, for his dish, Through gluttony — vile sin! Attempts, a wretch! to pull thee out, Heaven give the strength, O, gentle trout, TO PULL THE RASCAL IN !