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Quotes About Fishing

I'm afraid that the best angling is always a respite from burden.
~ Thomas McGuane
Tom sliced off the end of the night crawler and forked it up. But just as
~ Thomas Rockwell
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
~ Tiger Woods
Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it.
~ Jeremy Wade
Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.
~ Graydon Carter
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
~ Scotty McCreery
I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.
~ Wilbur Smith
I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.
~ John D. Voelker
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
~ Stephen Leacock
Although I have never pretended to be a great fisherman, it was always important to me that I was a fisherman and looked like one, especially when fishing with my brother.
~ Norman Maclean
Nella nostra famiglia non c'era una chiara linea di demarcazione tra religione e pesca a mosca.
~ Norman Maclean
After I caught these two, I quit. They made ten, and the last three were the finest fish I ever caught. They weren't the biggest or most spectacular fish I ever caught, but they were three fish I caught because my brother waded across the river to give me the fly that would catch them and because they were the last fish I ever caught fishing with him. After
~ Norman Maclean
we'll go fishing." "So it won't be heaven for the fish." "It'll be hell for everybody. But with good moments." "Just like our lives right now
~ Orson Scott Card
Man dont always catch what he fishes for.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mire, mire! called the man. He was fishing about in his pockets and soon he was juggling four small wooden balls in front of Glanton's horse. The horse snorted and lifted its head and Glanton leaned over the saddle and spat and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Aint that the drizzlin shits, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
No fish were biting. Not that morning. She heard James calling her with panic in his voice. Slowly, she trudged back to her family. "I told you," Sammy said to James, "because the fishing line was
~ Cynthia Voigt
Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.
~ Hank Aaron
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
It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
~ leacock stephen ii
I only make movies to finance my fishing'.
~ Lee Marvin
Dad's on a fishing boat in front of Carter's estate. If we get into trouble, all I have to do is press the button on the tiny transmitter in my pocket and he'll destroy the dome on top of Carter's house. Is that enough of a distraction for you? Maybe we can work out something a little more subtle.
~ Janet Evanovich
I could see the two of us in the round mirror on the wall, our long hair down, our blue eyes. Norsewomen. When I saw us like this, I could almost remember fishing in cold deep seas, the smell of cod, the charcoal of our fires, our felt boots and our strange alphabet, runes like sticks, a language like the ploughing of fields.
~ Janet Fitch
We need to get everyone into the outdoors, young and old, to enjoy and experience the unmatched beauty of our state's streams and lakes while participating in an activity, fishing, that's just plain out fun.
~ Jim Justice
Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It's the number one killer of juvenile sea turtles in Mexico. Two good sustainable seafood guides that I'd recommend are from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.