Quotes About Fishing

Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you, Janie. Ah ain't satisfied with mahself no mo'. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin' wid him after this.

Fly-fishing is really addictive.

Mike went fishing one day, but at the end he had not caught a single fish. On the way back home, he stopped at a fish store. "I want to buy three trout, please," he said to the owner. "But instead of putting them in a bag, can you throw them to me?" "Throw them? Why do you want me to do that?" the owner asked. Mike replied, "So I can tell everyone that I caught three fish!

If you want to catch a big fish, the best way is to fish in waters that are unpopulated by other fishermen.

Anyway, as I was saying, I don't know about you, Granddad, but I come from a long line of"—her gaze flicked through the open door into the room behind—"fishermen, who taught me that whilst I wasn't ever to think I was better than anyone else, I should always keep in mind that I was just as good.

This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with your sweat. It is the core of everything living, wilderness like molten iron.

Fishing—precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge." "I know what fishing is." I took a sip of

Grampa pulled off his lucky hat and sank into the recliner. Before long, he was snoring like a rusty hymn. 'Zzzzzz . . .' Uncle Leonard tossed Ray over one shoulder and hauled him into the kitchen, where the smell of frying bacon filled the air. 'Any fish today?" Aunt Wilhelmina asked. 'Yes, ma'am," Ray said, 'but that's not all we caught.' Uncle Leonard sat Ray down. 'What else was there?" 'Something bigger' is all that Ray would say.

Portland, Maine, is more like a big town than a booming metropolis. It was built around fishing, turned to manufacturing, but then eventually became one of those cities that you don't really know why it exists other than to take care of itself. The population was only around sixty thousand, but that still made it the biggest city in Maine.

I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.

The Arizona team named the crater after an unfortunately hard-to-pronounce small nearby fishing harbor, Chicxulub Puerto, which is located above the center of the structure. The term, which is pronounced CHICK-shuh-lube, is sometimes translated as the devil's tail—appropriately enough for the imposing feature that Walter Alvarez dubbed the "crater of doom.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

And so, as the stars came out, Miles took up his basket and made his way in the moonlight to the river, to the place where he'd hidden the little boat. It was gone. No great surprise, really. The region was notorious. Why shouldn't someone steal his boat? He'd return the favor and steal someone else's. Tomorrow. Tonight, though, he wanted a proper dinner. He set about fashioning a fishing line.

It occurred to me that dancing for Cynthia was the same as the pleasure I took in manual labor or fishing. Maybe everyone was better off in a state of physical exhaustion.

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

Some people said that Minnesota had two seasons: Shovel and Swat. Hannah knew that wasn't the case. The land of the frozen north had four seasons—Fishing Season, Duck Season, Deer Season, and Mud Season.

He's my favorite ex-husband. We get along great. I love to fish, and he has some beautiful property down there.

Love is like fishing. There are millions of them in the sea and it's easy to catch a fish. But it's hard to catch one that is truly a keeper.

Love is like catching a fish its better to sit and wait then to rush and get a bad one...

Los pescadores saben que el mar es peligroso y la tormenta, terrible. Pero eso no les impide hacerse a la mar

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

Only rarely, at the end of our century, does life offer up a vision as pure and peaceful as this one: a solitary man on a bucket, fishing through eighteen inches of ice in a lake that's constantly turning over its water atop an arcadian mountain in America.

A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.