Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a… — Patrick F. McManus 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
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast? — Nash Buckingham Copy Share Image
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives. — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. — Patrick F. McManus 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
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
