Fishing Quotes - Page 35

• The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

  Theodore Gordon

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

  Ed Zern

  Grateful, Cutting, Lakes

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• Feed a fish a cat a day

  Tony Bishop

  Cat, Lakes, Sea

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• As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.

  Jimmy Carter

  Successful, Good Friend, Hands

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Persistence, Sea

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• There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

  John D. Voelker

  Men, Sea, Rivers

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• 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

  Crazy, Thinking, Sea

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• Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.

  Lee Wulff

  Smart, Sea, Games

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• . . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• 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 front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

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• I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sports, Pride, Sea

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• Some people build fences to keep people out and we also do things everyday to keep people close - when we play ball and go fishing with our kids, we are doing it to keep them close and fenced in. That's how relationships are built positively - we're using fences to tell people that we love them.

  Russell Hornsby

  Kids, Play, People

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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• I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.

  Tim Winton

  Marine, Redneck, Knowing

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny depressing fishing town, all Portuguese immigrants and it's just a humorless, dark town.

  Joe Rogan

  Depressing, Crazy, Dark

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I've probably got the most loyal hardcore fans in the music business. You know, I can sit around, go fishing, do ten shows a year, fifteen, none, twenty, and it's just fantastic. Because they know I shoot straight and I don't talk bull.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Years, Twenties, Fans

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

  Rick Warren

  Grief, Waiting Rooms, People

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one

  Lefty Kreh

  Rivers, Lakes, Views

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• [St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Artist, Ideas, Towns

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make; they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.

  Wendell Berry

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

  Robby Takac

  Rainy Day, Men, Hunting

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get an idea on how to do something differently, but try to save it to try out later rather than break my comfortable rhythm. I don't worry about forgetting it. In my experience good ideas stay with you, while bad ones go back to where they came from, and good riddance.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Ideas

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Pride, Occupation

  "Anna Karenina".

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• Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Lakes, Sea

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