Fishing Quotes · Page 3

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or…

— Ernest Hemingway

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

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

“Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.”

— Fennel Hudson

What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed…

— Jessica Maxwell

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

— Dale Rex Coman

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

— John Keats

I want to play the Tour until I'm 46, 47, and then take about three years off, and then go play the…

— Boo Weekley

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

I grew up fly fishing when I was a kid. The feeling of it is fun. I went fly-fishing on Lake Delaware…

— Aaron Dessner

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

— Horace

The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a…

— Michael Gove

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

— Christopher Camuto

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

— Tom Sutcliffe

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to…

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and…

— Thomas McGuane

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

— Juliana Berners

I grew up fishing, but I'm actually a bigger hunter than I am a fisher.

— Maddie Marlow

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

— Kevin VanDam

The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To…

— Wendell Berry

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

— Joseph Monninger

There is much work to do to protect forests from over-timbering and oceans and lakes from over-fishing. We need to encourage and…

— Philip Kotler

I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less…

— Enric Sala

I grew up hunting and fishing, as did my family. But then I served in the military.

— Ralph Northam

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

— Baruch Spinoza