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Quote by Tony Bishop

“Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.”

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Tony Bishop

Tony Bishop, born on July 16, 1989, is an enigmatic figure whose profession and category remain unknown. more

“Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)”

“Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.”

Hell Cost Caustic

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature”

Joy Born Sea Produce Quiet Rivers Longing Fishes Boat Peaceful Lakes Fishing Unspoken Anglers Inbreds

Book:The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing

Source: The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing

“After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream”

Feels Years Stills Boys Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Like A Boy

Book:An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections

Source: An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections

“There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.”

Sea Capable Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Conceit Anglers

Author:Zane Grey

“Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?”

Humans Sea Development Rivers Destruction Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Vandalism

Author:Edward Abbey

“The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.”