Great Fishing Quotes - Page 2

• Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Fishing, Salmon, Taste

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.25, Macmillan

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• The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Stars, Winning

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

  Gwen Cooper

  Men, Fishing, Wife

  Gwen Cooper, Evelyn Haas (1989). “Wade a little deeper, dear: a woman's guide to fly fishing”, Lyons Press

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• Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Men, Lakes

  "The Compleat Angler".

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• I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

  William G. Tapply

  Fishing, Water, Gone

  William G. Tapply (1997). “A Fly-Fishing Life”

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• I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Regret, Fishing, Remember

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Fishing, Trout

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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• There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Home, Optimistic, Fishing

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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

  A. Best

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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  No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Journey, Men

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Trout, Problem

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• The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

  Lee Wulff

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

  Will Rogers

  Fishing, Would Be, World

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• Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Sea

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• In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.

  Ray Bergman

  Memories, Fishing, Would Be

  Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”

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• The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Fishing, Hours

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• I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

  Robert Altman

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  Patrick Swayze

  Fishing, Curiosity, Sides

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• Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Men, Fishing, Long

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.20, Macmillan

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