Top Fishing Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Fishing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jennifer Rardin
Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.
- Jennifer Rardin
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Image of Izaak Walton
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
- Izaak Walton
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Image of Robert Peel
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?
- Robert Peel
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Image of Dave Mustaine
God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.
- Dave Mustaine
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Image of Tom Brokaw
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.
- Tom Brokaw
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Thomas McGuane
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.
- Thomas McGuane
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Image of David Walker
Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.
- David Walker
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Image of Herb Shriner
All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
- Herb Shriner
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Image of John Harington
Best fishing in troubled waters.
- John Harington
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Image of Roderick Haig-Brown
Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.
- Roderick Haig-Brown
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Image of Thomas Shadwell
I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.
- Thomas Shadwell
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Image of Tony Horton
Aging is for people who don't know any better.
- Tony Horton
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Image of Ty Burrell
I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.
- Ty Burrell
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Image of Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
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Image of Dusty Baker
It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.
- Dusty Baker
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Image of Jimmy Webb
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
- Jimmy Webb
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Image of Daniel Craig
I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.
- Daniel Craig
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Image of Doug Coombs
There is no such thing as too much snow.
- Doug Coombs
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Image of John D. Voelker
The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.
- John D. Voelker
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Image of John D. Voelker
During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders
- John D. Voelker
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Image of Tony Todd
Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.
- Tony Todd
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Image of Achim Steiner
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.
- Achim Steiner
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Image of Henry Beard
Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.
- Henry Beard
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Image of Larry Holmes
I make appearances, but I really want to spend more time fishing. That is what I really enjoy doing with my spare time.
- Larry Holmes
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Image of Joseph Monninger
I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.
- Joseph Monninger
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Image of Joseph Monninger
I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself
- Joseph Monninger
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Image of Tom Riley
My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.
- Tom Riley
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Image of Neko Case
I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.
- Neko Case
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Image of Naomi Mitchison
... the fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.
- Naomi Mitchison
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Image of Howard Frank Mosher
There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.
- Howard Frank Mosher
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Image of Jack Gartside
I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.
- Jack Gartside
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Image of Linda Greenlaw
What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.
- Linda Greenlaw
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Image of Eugene Field
The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
- Eugene Field
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Image of Ze'ev Chafets
In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.
- Ze'ev Chafets
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Image of John Gierach
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
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Image of John Gierach
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.
- John Gierach
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Image of John Gierach
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.
- John Gierach
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Image of John Gierach
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.
- John Gierach
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Image of Eddie Irvine
Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)
- Eddie Irvine
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Image of Lee Wulff
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
- Lee Wulff
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Image of Howell Raines
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.
- Howell Raines
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Image of Tim Ferriss
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
- Tim Ferriss
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Image of Lefty Kreh
There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.
- Lefty Kreh
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Image of William G. Tapply
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
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Image of Paul Schullery
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.
- Paul Schullery
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Image of Paul Schullery
The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.
- Paul Schullery
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Image of William Cowper Prime
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
- William Cowper Prime
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Image of Patrick F. McManus
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.
- Patrick F. McManus
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Image of Patrick F. McManus
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
- Patrick F. McManus
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