The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't. — Patrick F. McManus 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
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch. — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes… — Juliana Berners Copy Share Image
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
“He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good… — Mohsin Hamid 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
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
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
“Angling is tightly woven in a fabric of moral, social, and philosophical threads which are not easily rent by the violent climate… — A. J. McClane 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
I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I… — Zach Anner 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
There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish. — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
“Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish. — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Izaak Walton 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
“There’s always an opportunity to fish for something – even if it’s just for laughs or ideas.” — Fennel Hudson 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 is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving 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
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
“There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day’s angling. Catching fish is but one of them.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
