Fishing Quotes

“I only make movies to finance my fishing.” ~ Lee Marvin

“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”  ~ Tom Brokaw

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

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~ Author Unknown

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.  ~ Author Unknown

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.  ~ Author Unknown

This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish.  ~ Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.  ~ Author Unknown

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.  ~ Irish Blessing

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.  ~ Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.  ~ Harold F. Blaisdell

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.  ~ Washington Irving

"Catch and Release fishing is a lot like golf. You don't have to eat the ball to have a good time." - Anonymous

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.  ~ A.K. Best

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.  ~ Babylonian Proverb

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.  ~ John Steinbeck

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.  ~ Author Unknown

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.  ~ Author Unknown

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.  ~ Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.  ~ Doug Larson

We ask a simple question

And that is all we wish:

Are fishermen all liars?

Or do only liars fish?

~ William Sherwood Fox

The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly.  ~ Author Unknown

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. ~ Robert Altman

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.  ~ Zenna Schaffer

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.  ~ Steven Wright

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.  ~ John Buchan

Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.  ~ Herbert Hoover

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.  ~ Paul Schullery

...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.  ~ William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried.  ~ Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949

I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout...  ~ Paul O'Neil

Even if you've been fishing for hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...  ~ Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.  ~ Miguel de Cervantes

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder:  Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?  ~ Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.  ~ Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979

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

Good things come to those who bait.  ~Author Unknown

"Carpe Diem" does not mean "fish of the day."  ~Author Unknown

Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty!  ~Author Unknown

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.  ~George Herbert

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.  ~Author Unknown

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.  ~Author Unknown

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.  ~Koos Brandt

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.  ~Patrick F. McManus

Men and fish are alike.  They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.  ~Author Unknown

"If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong."  John Gierach  

"Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger." - Herbert Hoover

"It is not how abundant nor how considerable our catch be, but rather to the sport, and manner in which our quarry, the noble trout is angled."-J.B. Martin

"Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I should never be able to enjoy it if I had to rely on the cooperation of the fish."  Sparse Grey Hackle

"The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so that I could afford to hunt and fish."  Sam Snead

  

"Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary"  Patrick McManus

"The fish and I were both stunned and disbelieving to find ourselves connected by a line."  William Humphrey in  "The Armchair Angler"

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm. --Herb Shriner

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. --Izaak Walton

"A bad day's fishing is better than a good day at work." --Anonymous

"He fishes well who uses a golden hook." --Latin Proverb

"The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't." --Patrick F MacManus

"The difference between fly fishers and worm dunkers is the quality of their excuses." --Anonymous

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." --Chinese Proverb

"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot." --Steven Wright

"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate." --Izaac Walton

"It is not a fish until it is on the bank." --Irish Proverb

"In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing." --Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976

"To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salvation, come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." -Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976

"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere." --Vincent Van Gogh

"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout." --Irish Proverb

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. -Author Unknown

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. --Author Unknown

"There is certainly something in fishing that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, a pure serenity of mind." --Washington Irving

"I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout." --Paul O'Neil

"If fishing is like religion, then flyfishing is high church." --Tom Brokaw

"Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God." --Tony Blake

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. --Izaac Walton

"If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business." --Alfred W. Miller

"Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling." --William Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night"; Act II, Scene 1, Line 2

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." --Doug Larsen

Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.--Henry David Thoreau

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains." --Henry DavidThoreau

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. --Author Unknown

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. --Author Unknown

"A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it." --Arnold Gingrich

Flyfishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is, and that everyone is getting more than their share.--Henry Kanemoto

"When you fish with a flie, if it be possible, let no part of your line touch the water, but your flie only." --Isaak Walton

"Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up." --Arnold Gingrich, 1969

"Calling Fly Fishing a hobby is like calling Brain Surgery a job." --Paul Schullery

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. --John Buchan

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. --Charles Haas

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. --Babylonian Proverb

"Game fish are to valuable to be caught only once" --Lee Wulff

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

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? --Dave Shiflett

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. ~ Author Unknown

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. --Author Unknown

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. --Herbert Hoover

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. --Chinese Proverb

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. --Author Unknown

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. --Don Marquis

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. --John Steinbeck

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. --Chuang Tzu

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. --Henry David Thoreau

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut. --Author Unknown

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit to a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love and hating moonlight. --John Steinbeck 1954

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. --Henry David Thoreau

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. --Edgar Watson Howe

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. --Chinese Proverb

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. --Ernest Hemingway

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.'' --Alexander Pope

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

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. --John Ruskin

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. --Karl Marx

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. --Louis Nizer

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? --Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. --Ovid

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. --Ovid

Never offer to teach a fish to swim. --Proverb

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. --J. A. Dever

One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe. --Hawaiian Saying

For the rich, there is therapy. For the rest of us, there is FISHING! --Unknown

The science of fishing can be had from books; the art is learned by the catching and losing of fish." --W. H. Blake - Brown Waters

We ask a simple question and that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish? --William Sherwood Fox

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

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

"If bass fishing was as easy as we all want it to be, then it wouldn't be a sport, it would be a habit." --Jimmy Houston

Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium. --Paul Harvey

Come follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. --Matthew 4:19

When a man picks up a fly rod for the first time, he may not know, he has been born again. --Joseph D. Farris

"The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone" --Mark Twain

Big trout will suck your fly down. Count one, one thousand, then set the hook. --Unknown

"All fishermen are liars except for you and me, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure about you" --Unknown

Some of the best fishing ever done, was done without water, using only the printed word. --Unknown

The man who coined the phrase "Money can't buy happiness", never bought himself a good fly rod!) --Reg Baird

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead), will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. --Koos Brandt

When you fish, you must wear a goofy hat. --Unknown

Tourist dollars should not dictate stocking procedures! --Unknown

Ladies, when you are fly fishing, and nature calls, life is not fair. --Unknown

Early to bed, early to rise, fish all day, make up lies. --Unknown

"Fly Fishing is like raising children. You never know what's going to happen next!" --Jimmy D. Moore

"Now that trout are in my field of study, I much regret that I started life as an idiot" --Christopher Camuto

Zen and the art of ice fishing is an oxymoron. --Unknown

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. --W. C. Fields

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. --Andre Gide

Fish should smell like the tide. Once they smell like fish, it's too late. --Oscar Gizelt

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. --Andrew Heller

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. --Hugh Newell Jacobsen

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? --Pedro Calderon de la Barca

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. --Stephen B. Leacock

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. --Karl Marx

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. --Imelda Marcos

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. --Mark Twain


Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. --Lao Tzu

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. --Lao Tzu

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. --Sam Snead

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. --Herbert Hoover

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. --Doug Larson

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. --Don Marquis

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.  ~ Author Unknown

"Who ever said "A bad day of fishing is always better than a good day at work." Never had their boat sink." ~ Unknown

"The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't." ~ Patrick F. McManus

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.  ~Paul Schullery
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.  ~Koos Brandt

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.  ~Author Unknown

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.  ~Author Unknown

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.  ~John Buchan

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
-- Henry David Thoreau

The worse your line is tangled, the better is the fishing around you.-Author Unknown

A "reel" fisherman has at least one lure that never caught a fish!

Man can learn a lot from fishing -- when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.-- Orlando A. Battista

Only an extraordinary person would purposely risk being outsmarted by a creature often less than twelve inches long, over and over again.~ Janna Bialek

"He's not the sharpest hook in the tackle box."~ Anonymous

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.  ~Irish Blessing

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.  ~Washington Irving

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.  ~A.K. Best

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.  ~Paul O'Neil, 1965

Unknown:  "Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.”

"Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think
 about God." ~ Tony Blake

 "Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently." ~ Chinese Proverb

Roderick Haig-Brown:  "Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers."

Henry Kanemoto:  "Fly fishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is,
and that everyone is getting more than their share."

Robert Traver:  " The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas."

Unknown:  "Who ever said "A bad day of fishing is always better than a good day at work." Never had their boat sink."

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, 

but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. 

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong."  John Gierach

"It is not how abundant nor how considerable our catch be, but rather to the sport, and manner in which our quarry, the noble trout is angled."-J.B. Martin

If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business.
- Sparse Grey Hackle (Alfred W. Miller)

"When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing." ~ Howell Raines

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.  ~Author Unknown

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.  ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.  ~Patrick F. McManus

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.  ~Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969

...this planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish.  ~Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.  ~Ernest Hemingway

"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration." - Izaac Walton

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.  ~A.K. Best

"Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it." - Ed Zern

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.  ~Babylonian Proverb

"Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up." - Arnold Gingrich

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.  ~Henry David Thoreau

"The best time to go fishing is when you can get away". - Robert Traver

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.  ~Author Unknown

"The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years." - Whitey Herzog

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.  ~Paul Schullery

" For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight." -  John Steinbeck

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.  ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.  ~Koos Brandt

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.  ~Doug Larson

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.  ~Irish Blessing

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.  ~Paul O'Neil, 1965

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.  ~Steven Wright

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.  ~John Buchan

Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.  ~Herbert Hoover

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land.  It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.  ~Chuck Clark

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.  ~Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946

"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes." - Don Marquis

"These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't get close enough to present it."  - Dick Blalock

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.  ~Author Unknown

"For the supreme test of a fisherman is not how many fish he has caught, not even how he has caught them, but what he has caught when he has caught no fish." - John H. Bradley

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.  ~Author Unknown

"Fishing with shrimp is like sleeping with your sister. It was ok when you were a kid!" ~Captain Pete Greenan

You can observe a lot just by watching."  Yogi Berra

 Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
-Edgard Watson Howe

Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.
-Unknown

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
-Stephen Wright

Sitting still and wishing
Made no person great;
The good Lord sends the fishing,
but you must dig the bait
-Anonymous

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish
-Ovid --Roman classical poet, author of Metamorphoses, 43 BC – 17

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
-Dan Quayle

Even a fish could stay out of trouble if it would just learn to keep its mouth shut.
-Unknown

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
-Anonymous

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
-Anonymous (English Proverb)

It matters not how many fish are in the sea - if you don't have any bait on your hook.
-Anonymous

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
-Ambrose Bierce --American writer, journalist, and editor, 1842-1914?

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other.
-Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

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

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
-Doug Larson, 1902-1981

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
-Sam Snead --American Professional Golfer, 1912-2002

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
-Stephen Leacock --Canadian humorist, 1869-1944

Fishing is not a matter of life or death, it's more serious than that.
-Anonymous

You can  give a man a fish and he will eat  for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-Kwan Tzu

You can give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will lie and drink beer the rest of his life.
-Anonymous

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
-Anonymous

Fishing is not just a hobby...it's a way of life.
-Anonymous

Men are like fish they get in trouble when they open their mouths.
-Anonymous

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
-Henry David Thoreau

Fishing, a jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other end.
-Anonymous

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.
-Paul O'Neil --1965

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
-John Steinbeck

I can't tune a piano, but I can Tuna fish.
-Anonymous

Fishing: You must be present to win.
-Anonymous

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
-Don Marquis --American Writer, Columnist, Novelist, Playwright and Poet, 1878-1937

The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't.
- Patrick F. McManus

Flyfishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is, and that everyone is getting more than their share.
- Henry Kanemoto, on Flyfish@ 1996