I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours… — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image
Martha says the interesting thing about fly fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Martha. Grow… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to… — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
“Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. "I once hear a poem… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers, Gunner said. It is the contemplative man's recreation. If that was so,… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
