Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton 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
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey 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
Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it… — Cornelia Parker 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
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them… — Will C. Barnes Copy Share Image
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
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
“The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a… — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
Sure, I could retire anytime. I don't need to work for money. But retire to what? Sitting around the pool reading? Or… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
If you're trout fishing in the lochs of Scotland, your catch may end up like this: batter-crusted with that ubiquitous Scottish staple,… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
