Quotes About Angling

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Tom sliced off the end of the night crawler and forked it up. But just as

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

Using a weight-forward line's shooting properties is a much more efficient way to get distance.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

top, mid-depths, and bottom—are the Olive Beadhead listed for green rock worms, the March Brown Spider soft-hackle listed for caddis pupae, and the Deer Hair Caddis given here for caddis adults. I often try more than one of them at once.

The X-Caddis is excellent

Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to measure the pleasure by the catch.

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

Without question, the most famous book ever written about angling is The Compleat Angler published by Izaak Walton in 1653. Since

I'd lie with the moonlight angling through the backyard maple to cast a fretwork of shadows on the wall and remember the ghost of my old fears, although I no longer saw the shadows as the skeletal hands of a beast come to claim my soul

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.

Let the blessing of Saint Peter's Master be… upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.

Thus use your frog…. Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;… and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.

Dave Hughes, in his fine book An Angler's Astoria, has

Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing then the worm.