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“I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.”

Humans Practice Amount Ocean Concerned Scales Destructive Fishing Consumption Modest Wildlife Large Scale

Author:Sylvia Earle

“It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.”

Ends Millions Sea Luxury Fishing Feeding Starving

Author:Sylvia Earle

“So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.”

Ifs Air Sea Rivers Fishes Flying Boat Lakes Fishing Insects Fresh Air Nymphs Replica

Author:Rex Hunt

“But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.”

Years Done Hands Years Ago Died Majority Fifty Fishing Marine Merchants Capes Portuguese Marine Life Merchant Marine

Author:Joseph C. Lincoln

“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”

People Names Given Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Angling Fish Tanks

Book:My Remarkable Uncle

Source: My Remarkable Uncle

“My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.”

Littles My Friends Fishes Fishing Smelly

Author:Jeff Goldblum

“Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.”

Ideas Desire Waiting Fishes Fishing Hook Bait Having Patience

Author:David Lynch

“Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.”

Term Rocks Bottom Fishing

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.”

Children Hate Millions I Hate Sticks Fishes Fishing Love Hate Beef Children Love Stew I Hate Love

Author:Marian Burros

“One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing”

World Great Things Fishing Fly Fishing

Book:A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

“Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."”

Humans Looks Littles Said Home House Interest Boys Fire Fronts Son Like You Fishing Reporters Angle Consumed Little Boys Homeowners

Author:Barbara Johnson

“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”

Men Artist Born Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Angling Anglers

Author:Izaak Walton

“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

Wish Fear Leadership Inspiring Fishing Strings Follow Your Heart Famous Inspirational Leadership By Famous Leaders Funny Leadership

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.”

Men Next Prayer Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Personal Relationships

Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“Aging is for people who don't know any better.”

People Knows Aging Fishing Angling Bumper Bumper Sticker Great Fishing Funny Bumper Sticker

Author:Tony Horton

“I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.”

Boys Keys Lows My Friends Fishing Hanging Out Carolina North Carolina Low Key Scotty

Author:Scotty McCreery

“I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.”

Firsts War Shows Remember Three Taken Drunk Occasions Fishing Oscars Ceremony Another Time

Author:John Ford

“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon”

Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Horizon Fisherman Places To Go New Places New Horizons

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.”

People Different Together Attitude Grew Grew Up Hollywood Catholic Sticks Fishing Village Coast Wales Different Attitude

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

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

Knows Sides Curiosity Fishing Adjustment Fisherman Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Funny Fishing Romance Movie Funny Fish

Author:Patrick Swayze

“Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.”

“...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.”

Bits Cities Seeing Sea Car Arms Rivers Window Average Fishes Stores Boat Buying Lakes Fishing Joining Fly Fishing

Author:John D. Voelker

“Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Should Two Three Perfect Sea Rivers Casts Fishes Boat Sufficient Lakes Fishing Anglers

Author:Joe Brooks

“Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.”

Art Seems Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Colour Lakes Fishing Great Art Reproduction

Author:Bill Barich

“We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.”

Numbers Various Seeds Fishing Immense Coast Pacific Subsistence

Author:Junipero Serra

“I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.”

Men Kind Certain Conversion Fishing Offering Candy Bait

Author:Larry Norman

“One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.”

People Littles Long Government Found Forget Cry Blessing Towns Operations Fishing Long Road

Author:Connie Sellecca

“The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.”

I Can Beautiful Shooting Fishing Clay Countryside Pigeons Beautiful Places English Countryside

Author:Guy Ritchie

“All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.”

Book Courses Literature Sides Behinds Mets Affection Enjoyed Prose Fishing Miscellaneous

Author:Norman MacCaig

“Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.”

Men Wells Reason Literature Killing Fishes Bother Fishing Hesitation

Author:Norman MacCaig

“It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.”

Littles Whole Feelings Lines Audience Laughing Fishing Bites Hook Casting

Author:Jim Dale

“And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.”

Trying Years I Can States Kids One Thing Proud Fishing Be Proud Venues

Author:Rex Hunt

“Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.”

Ends Use Black Lines Clear Ties Fishing Plastic Thread

Author:John Badham

“Fish recognize a bad leader.”

Leader Fishes Fishing

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.”

Water Company Fishes Fishing

Book:The complete works of Thomas Shadwell

Source: The complete works of Thomas Shadwell

“Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.”

May I Can Ends Humor Funny Sea Fool Rivers Sticks Fishes Boat Compare Pleasant Lakes Fishing Strings Worms Amusement Floats Fly Fishing Angling

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.”

Fishing Get Away Best Times Fly Fishing Angling Funny Fishing

Author:John D. Voelker

“O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?”

Art Doubt Art Is Fishing Artificial Deceiving Trout Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Trout Fishing

Book:The Complete Angler

Source: The Complete Angler

“Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.”

Men Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Decent Lakes Fishing Bites Sabbath Tempting Trout Decent Man Critters

Author:James M. Barrie

“On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.”

Sea Six Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Thirty Lakes Fishing Inches Trout

Author:Arnold Gingrich

“The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.”

Way Firsts Doe Water Lines Air Figures Miracle Muscles Fishing Dynamics

Author:John Hillaby

“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.”

Enjoy Water Attention Watches Alive Seeing Weight Size Partners Code Fishing Unspoken Trout

Book:North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland

Source: North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland

“Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.”

Way Giving Mind Firsts Past Half Plans Sea Youth Duty Safe Essentials Rivers Fishes Accomplish Boat Lakes Fishing Sensible One Half Fly Fishing Time Flies

Book:The Complete Fly Fisherman

Source: The Complete Fly Fisherman

“When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.”

Heart Fishes Fishing Bites Hook Bait

Author:John Burroughs

“Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!”

Fighting Sticks Obsessed Fishing

Author:Tim Rice

“Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.”

Hate Blessing And Love Fishing Contention Angling

Book:The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers

Source: The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers

“Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.”

Beautiful Fishing Trout

Author:Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

“Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.”

Thinking Men Next Sports Fishes Therapy Fishing Catching

Author:Deion Sanders

“The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.”

Caught Fishes Fishing

Book:A Little Book of Western Verse

Source: A Little Book of Western Verse

“Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.”

Men Want Littles Said Rich Havens Drink Gun Dollars Fishes Boxes Spending What You Want Boat Fishing Over You Old Man Hunting Shells Roof Whiskey Owing Roof Over Your Head

Author:Robert Ruark

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