Fishing Quotes - Page 3

• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

  Ted Hughes

  Opportunity, Self, Giving

  "Poet, pike and a pitiful grouse". Interview with Thomas Pero, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 1999.

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• The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

  Mary Astor

  Men, He Man, Fishes

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• An excellent angler, and now with God.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Lakes

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• Fish and visitors stink in three days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Benjamin Franklin, Bessie W. Johns (comp) (1942). “Poor Richard comes to Life”

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

  Oliver Herford

  Taken, Lakes, Sea

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.36, BookRix

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• Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

  John D. Voelker

  Fun, Sea, Rivers

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• Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

  George Crabbe

  Boys, Wife, Made

  George Crabbe, “The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes”

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• It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

  Theodore Gordon

  Sports, Years, Two

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

  Ed Zern

  Morning, Sea, Rivers

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• I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

  Jack Gartside

  Hell, Great Fishing, Trout Fishing

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• Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.

  Deion Sanders

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

  Bill Barich

  Art, Lakes, Sea

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• Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.

  Michael Drayton

  Rivers, Feet, Lakes

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• 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 on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.

  John Gierach

  Rocks, Trout, Essentials

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• I have other fish to fry.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.556, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

  Joe Brooks

  Lakes, Sea, Two

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• Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 10

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• What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

  Nash Buckingham

  Trout, Emotion, Casts

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• 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

  William Shakespeare

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

  Bobby Flay

  Cooking, Hamburgers, Ingredients

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• I'm going to gut you like a fish.

  Mike Tyson

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Conversation, Discourse

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18

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• God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Lakes, Deep Water, Sea

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  Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

  John James Audubon

  Not Caring, Hunting, Drawing

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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