Fishing Quotes

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

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

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.