... 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
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
You know the thing I liked about fishing when I was 14 was being out with your mates mucking about, throwing bread… — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean,… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins. — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best… — Walter D. Wetherell Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing. — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method. — Granger Smith Copy Share Image
Trout fisherman often give away their presence to the fish by the equipment they are wearing. The yo-yo hanging on the fly… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Conversations around fishing tend to be easier than around hunting, they don't have eyelashes. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
"I guess I'm okay with that. But it's not going to be easy for you. They don't have a lot of fishing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea. — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image