Anglers Quote by John Gierach Download Open image “Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.” — John Gierach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anglers Angling Creeps Fishing Fly fishing Funny fishing Great fishing Idiot Long Trout Trout fishing
Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two shits about… — Tanc Sade Copy Share Image
There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait,… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
In life there's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm. — 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 mainstream culture… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think — John Gierach Copy Share Image
We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know… — John Gierach 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 your trout… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on… — John Gierach 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 see where… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte. — Juliana Berners Copy Share Image
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
