Anglers Quote by Roderick Haig-Brown

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many…

— Thaddeus Norris

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

— Izaak Walton

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

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred…

— Thaddeus Norris

Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than…

— Leigh Hunt

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

People often assume that 'MeatEater' is a sort of reaction against traditional hunting TV, but it's really not. I never watched hunting TV growing…

— Steven Rinella

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

— Zane Grey

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure…

— Edward Abbey

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

— Phyllis Bottome

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged…

— John D. Voelker