The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us… — Patrick Young Copy Share Image
I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Saltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's like sex after lunch. — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . . — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in… — Frederick Schiller Faust Copy Share Image
What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968.… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps:… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is… — Joseph Monninger Copy Share Image
Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end,… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. — Charles W. Waterman Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy… — Shandi Finnessey Copy Share Image
What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so… — Thaddeus Norris Copy Share Image
“If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
