What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness — John McPhee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Life, to me, is like fishing: you won’t catch anything until you start, and every year you get older is another year… — Alex Staniforth Copy Share Image
Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One… — Joe Brooks Copy Share Image
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in… — Peter C. Doherty Copy Share Image
I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive. — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is,… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of… — Thomas Bastard Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural… — Tye Sheridan Copy Share Image
Hull has always been known as a tough town and deservedly so. It was built on fishing, and that's a tough industry.… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There's… — Ally McCoist Copy Share Image
I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding… — Ted Trueblood Copy Share Image
From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“In fact, fishing is one of the world’s most wasteful and destructive industries. Every year, more than seven million tons of so-called… — Hope Bohanec Copy Share Image
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
“Here is a simple formula for successful fishing. First decide what it is you want to express or possess. This is essential.… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
Hong Kong never had prestige. It's gone from fishing village to where it is today. — Alvin Leung Copy Share Image
Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
