Anglers Quote by Leigh Hunt

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

— William Cowper Prime

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has…

— Leigh Hunt

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their…

— Desmond Morris

It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable…

— Joseph Monninger

When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a…

— Karl A. Menninger

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and…

— Charles Ritz

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

“A fishing life changes and everyday offers the promise of a new experience. To the dedicated angler, fishing is not sport or recreation. It…

— Jadon Wilder

Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the…

— Thomas Bastard

Fishing's such a beautiful activity which makes perfect sense to me. It's like a therapy, because you are surrounded by nature, and that helps…

— Robson Green