Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers. — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The number one rule of fishing is be quiet. Don't scare the fish! — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since. — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act. — Christopher Camuto Copy Share Image
I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, -… — Alfred Lord Tennyson 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
I've fished since I was a teenager. It's one of the most fantastic activities, and there's so much to it. I just… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
“If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.' — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to… — Nate Holland 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
The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and… — John Hillaby Copy Share Image
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature:… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I did a story for the Geographic on Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and Stephen Ambrose was the writer. He said, "I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You know, you can only play just so much golf or go fishing just so often. — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake. — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland. — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
