The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star. — Alice Riley Copy Share Image
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and… — Bob Gibson Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse. — Havilah Babcock Copy Share Image
I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours… — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the… — Jon Lester Copy Share Image
Farming and fishing are the major causes of the collapse of both marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Meat - consumed in greater quantities… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,… — Liu Zongyuan 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
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
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you. — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
My biggest regret in life - well, one of them - is that I wasn't muskie fishing from '92 to '96 when… — Christian Laettner Copy Share Image
These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
“It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
Martha says the interesting thing about fly fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Martha. Grow… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Back in Oklahoma, we always spent our vacations fishing. The kids slept in the cars while the grownups slept on the riverbank. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry. — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
