Bites Quote by Mark Twain

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

— Norman MacCaig

There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

— Oliver Herford

With rivers, you don't have a lot of room to work, and with the bigger fish that I'm catching, you might have just a…

— Jeremy Wade

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

— Herbert Hoover

Fish are not the best authority on water.

— Jane Yolen

It's not good fishing before the net.

— George Herbert

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

— Herbert Hoover

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

— Anonymous

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

— Izaak Walton

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

— George Eliot

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

— Tim Ferriss