Bites Quote by James M. Barrie

Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men

— James Matthew Barrie

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the…

— John D. Voelker

“I fish because I love to. Because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where…

— Robert Traver

It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some…

— Carey Mulligan

“He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show how much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as…

— John D. Voelker

They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

— William Butler Yeats

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out,…

— John Wolcot

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

— Havilah Babcock

“And now behold what this pious old trout hath wrought.”

— Christopher Hitchens