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“Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.”

Needs Years Light Reading Sea Rivers Eternity Casts Fishes Impression Boat Features Ties Lakes Fishing Crops Wrists

Author:Tony Bishop

“It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.”

Wells Persons Known Sea Training Rivers Regard Method Fishes Reputation Boat Lakes Fishing Well Known Trout

Book:In the Wilderness

Source: In the Wilderness

“If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story.”

Ifs Different Stories Spirit Water Sea Rivers Fishes Surface Boat Lakes Fishing Moose

Book:Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir

Source: Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir

“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”

Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors

“Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.”

Sea Cold Creatures Rivers Fishes Kingdoms Boat Lakes Fishing Animated Heartless Cold Blooded Unchristian

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“You cannot lose what you never had.”

Loses Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing

Author:Izaak Walton

“The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.”

Knows Facts Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Articles Fisherman Trout

Book:Trout Bum

Source: Trout Bum

“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.”

Knows Believe Book Used I Believe Sea Rivers Opposites Series Library Fishes Used To Be Boat Lakes Fishing Shelves

Author:Jasper Fforde

“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.”

People Thinking Looks I Can Hours Lines Sea Fool Bears Sitting Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Throwing Catching After Hours

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.”

Littles Dream Lying Sleep Fantasy Too Much Sea Drink Truth Is Rivers Fishes Arise Boat Lakes Fishing Schemes Elusive Fisherman Toss Mermaid Trout Dripping Moody Cranky Daft Haggard

Author:John D. Voelker

“There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.”

Way Ends Sea Rivers Fishes Best Way Boat Lakes Fishing Controversy Angling

Book:New handbook of freshwater fishing

Source: New handbook of freshwater fishing

“The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.”

Earth Hell Pieces Sea Rivers Bounds Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Restraint Grind Dams

Book:Leavings: Poems

Source: Leavings: Poems

“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.”

Men Years Enough Whole Spiritual Records Sea Serious Rivers Seasons Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Anguish

Author:Ed Zern

“About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.”

Ifs Sea Rivers Fishes Boxes Boat Certainty Uncertainty Lakes Fishing Fly Fishing

Book:The Joys of Trout

Source: The Joys of Trout

“Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.”

Sometimes Sea Rivers Method Fishes Boat Release Lakes Fishing

Author:Granger Smith

“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.”

Men Beautiful Greater Sea Brother Rivers Killing Fishes Noble Boat Lakes Fishing Old Man Calmer Fish In The Sea

Book:The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.”

Water Sea Fit Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Trout

Book:The Joys of Trout

Source: The Joys of Trout

“If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.”

Ifs Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Great Success Conceited Trout Peg

Book:The Complete Fly Fisherman

Source: The Complete Fly Fisherman

“As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.”

World Doe Spiritual Existence Sea Land Mankind Emotional Depends Rivers Lakes Farmers Fisherman Beauty Of The World

Author:Ansel Adams

“What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.”

Knows Should Two Humor Funny Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Two Things Lakes Fishing Chickens Penguins Fish Tanks

Author:Dave Attell

“Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee”

Helping Hands Jesus Christ Prayer Sea Jesus Christ Salvation Help Me Lakes Drowning

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.”

Men Writing Said Water Common Air Sea Century Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Ads Seashore Flowing Water Justinian

Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?”

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.”

Knows Want Shows Humor Funny Sea Tvs Late Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Let It Go Trout Fishing

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.”

Sea Objects Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Tournaments Fisherman

Author:Ted Williams

“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.”

Knows Ends Water Imagination Lines Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Fisherman Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Funny Fishing Funny Fish

Author:Robert Altman

“Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.”

Source: Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind

“. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.”

Use Lines Sea Honest Rivers Casts Fishes Protection Boat Poison Lakes Fishing Spells Slaughter Bait Dynamite Anglers

Book:Introduction to the Compleat Angler

Source: Introduction to the Compleat Angler

“Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.”

Source: The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...

“When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!”

Ifs Way Lines Chance Powerful Sea Rivers Hunger Fishes Boat Meat Lakes Fishing Prize Fisherman Bait Trout Roving

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

“Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.”

Sports Sea Football Rivers Fishes Boat Knees Injury Lakes Fishing Catching Catching Fish Knee Injuries

Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.”

Water Forever Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Lament

Author:Tom Sutcliffe

“Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness”

May Political Sea Rivers Fishes Cruelty Boat Release Lakes Fishing Political Correctness Correctness

Book:The Founding Fish

Source: The Founding Fish

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

Source: Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul

“Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.”

Seems Form Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Loafing

Author:E. W. Howe

“We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.”

States Beautiful United United States Sea Fields Planets Lakes Purple Tropics Turquoise

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.”

Beautiful Water Sea Disappear Streams Lakes Better Place

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.”

Ifs Persons I Can Ends Problem Kids Sea Rivers Fishes Nine Boat Lakes Fishing Alright

Author:Rex Hunt

“Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.”

Sea Planets Huge Ocean Rivers Fishes Dry Lakes Fishing Ecosystems Tolls Ocean Sea Lakes And Rivers

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.”

Practice Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Release Lakes Fishing Preference Ecological Smack

Author:Christopher Camuto

“The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.”

Mind Sea Worst Losing Rivers Fishes Boat Release Lakes Fishing

Book:A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

Source: A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

“The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.”

Ends Spiritual Joy Water Lines Dark Sea Materials Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Sparks Thrill Cords Sustenance Spinal Cord Dark Water

Book:A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

Source: A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.”

Ifs Feels Enough Three Hours Chance Sea Rain Rivers Wake Up Forgiving Dear Fishes Boat Thanks Lakes Fishing Good Life Thanksgiving Thank You Dear God

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”

Lying Sea Clothes Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Delusion Liars Fly Fishing Angling Funny Fishing Old Clothes

Author:Don Marquis

“Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.”

Sea Rivers Fishes Boring Boat Lakes Fishing Disgusting Fly Fishing Angling Catching Fish

Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.”

Kind Sea Food Trust Rivers Cooking Sticks Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Culinary Seafood Eyeballs Fins

Author:Dave Barry

“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”

Humans Human Beings Powerful Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Angling Great Fishing Fish Tanks

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“I'm going to gut you like a fish.”

Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Boxing Guts Lakes Fishing Fish Tanks

Author:Mike Tyson

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