Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers. — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
There is something basic about fishing that goes back to man's very beginnings. — Robert Fuller Copy Share Image
You might as well just move onto a boat because you're always fishing for compliments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further. — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not fishing for compliments. Sometimes it's how you really see yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few fishermen have ulcers. And fishing is great for kids. It gives them something to do and keeps them out of trouble. — Robert Fuller Copy Share Image
“It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My biggest regret in life - well, one of them - is that I wasn't muskie fishing from '92 to '96 when… — Christian Laettner Copy Share Image
The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently,… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I want to play the Tour until I'm 46, 47, and then take about three years off, and then go play the… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“But compared with much of the rest of the world, Europe is a beacon of enlightenment. Among the many amazing and depressing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a… — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food. — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
