Explore Quotes on Fishing

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

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

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

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?

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

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

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.