Great fishing Quotes

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

— Arnold Gingrich

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

— Patrick F. McManus

Never leave fish to find fish.

— Moses

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

— Madonna Ciccone

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

— Whitey Herzog

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

— Horace Greeley

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

— Anonymous

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

— Arnold Gingrich

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

— Herbert Hoover

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

— Patrick F. McManus

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right…

— John Gierach

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

— Dave Mustaine

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

— Ann Landers

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

— Lefty Kreh

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

— Izaak Walton

Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

— Gwen Cooper

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of…

— Herbert Hoover

In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the…

— Ray Bergman

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip…

— John Gierach

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

— Izaak Walton

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman…

— William Cowper Prime

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to…

— John Gierach

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

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted…

— Theodore Gordon

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

— Tony Horton

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

— Patrick F. McManus

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

— Washington Irving

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

— Arnold Gingrich

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

— Charles W. Waterman

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

— Zane Grey

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

— Theodore Gordon

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

— Nash Buckingham

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

— Jack Gartside

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

— Patrick F. McManus

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

— Izaak Walton

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

— Herbert Hoover

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

— Leo Tolstoy

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

— Will Rogers

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

— Thomas McGuane

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

— Roderick Haig-Brown