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Quotes About Fishing

If you wonder why a man would shave before spending all day in his bass boat, you have never seen an angler's face projected in high-def on the JumboTron at a Classic weigh-in.
~ Steve Rushin
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
~ Don Marquis
I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
~ Paul Watson
Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.
~ Tye Sheridan
Some people say it is relaxing to fish. But not with me. I simply cannot switch off my competitive instincts.
~ Adrian Lewis
I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.
~ Michael Gove
no se pesca la herejía de la gente como quien pesca piojos.
~ Ken Follett
To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap.
~ Ken Kesey
I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it.
~ Ken Kesey
Two whores on their way down from Portland to take us deep-sea fishing in a boat! It made it tough to stay in bed until the dorm lights came on at six-thirty
~ Ken Kesey
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
~ David James
Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.
~ William Shakespeare
Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.
~ William Shakespeare
We ask a simple question And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish?
~ William Sherwood Fox
Sir, if Tang can't avoid the Mexican fishing fleet," O'Kane replied, "she doesn't have any business going on patrol.
~ William Tuohy
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind it's the opposite of healthy.
~ Dean Ween
Dynamite was the milk of life to the average hillbilly of the day. He celebrated with it, feuded with it, and fished with it. The Sporting instinct runs strong in the hills. When the fishing season would open, the river would literally be aboil with TNT.
~ Jean Shepherd
Fishing poles. The weapon of choice for the traveler in distress. We also had lots and lots of marshmallows. Maybe we could immobilize these guys with sticky gooey goodness.
~ Jeff Strand
it's the best fish I've ever caught, that fish I didn't catch, cause it's a fish that will always be with me now and never be eaten, it'll never die, that fish I'll never land.
~ Ali Smith
I'll catch something to cook in the morning. I don't think we're far from the river. There will be fish." "You can do that?" Logan eyed her. Maddie eyed him back, a little offended. "I caught a Russian killer." Logan ate another berry. "Point taken.
~ Ally Carter
I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.
~ Claude Monet
It doesn't matter what the weather is like - even if it's minus 10 I will go out there and fish.
~ Adrian Lewis