The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't. — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
“There’s always an opportunity to fish for something – even if it’s just for laughs or ideas.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ultimate Catch' is probably the ultimate angling experience. I go further than ever in pursuit of a fish Ive always wanted to… — Robson Green Copy Share Image
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
“The late American golfing coach and writer, Harvey Penick, held that any who played golf was his friend – in the politer… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
