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Some Fishing Quotes

“The two best times to fish is when it’s rainin’ and when it ain’t.” –Patrick F MacManus

“There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.” –Steven Wright
 
“It is not a fish until it is on the bank.” –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
 
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” –Doug Larsen (can I get an Amen?)


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

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

“With every trip I collect new mementos, though few are collected in scrapbooks. And all who fish for bass across the land collect them too. They are the images from first light to last and from first fish to last. And we’d share them in a minute. Some recall particular triumphs, often preserved in snapshots and clippings, while others we tend to hide, at least until the time we’re ready to laugh about them. Daybreaks, canebrakes, heartbreaks, muggy nights, and foggy mornings. A hundred things that worked, and a thousand more that should have. That’s bass fishing.” —-George Kramer

For the rich, there is therapy. For the rest of us, there is FISHING! –Unknown
 
“All fishermen are liars except for you and me, and to tell you the truth, I’m not sure about you” –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
 
“Even though I saw the move coming and sunk the rod to the grips, the fish broke through the surface, pausing on the taut line and loaded fiberglass. There it was, just for an instant, an eye and a mouth. And back down it went, pulling drag and wiping a dozen years of fishing experience from my consciousness.” –George Kramer

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

Calling 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

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

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

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

Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think  about God.” – Tony Blake

Fishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is, and that everyone is getting more than their share.” – Unknown

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

Who ever said “A bad day of fishing is always better than a good day at work,” Never had their boat sink – Unknown

11 Comments

  1. steve says:

    All soooooo true :grin:

  2. Jenn says:

    You make me want to be a better fisher. I missed wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope you had/have both!

  3. Rob says:

    Great quotes! :)

  4. hunterdave99 says:

    wow,
    everyone is still alive. :smile:

    Here are a few of my favorite surf fishing sayings:

    The coastal environment is not a theme park, and its inhabitants are not cuddle toys. Shark teeth are sharp, and the only “stuffed animals” in the ocean are big fish that just knocked off a bunch of little fish.
    -Doug Pike, Houston Chronicle

    The surf always puts out sooner or later but she does it on her own schedule and not ours. Capt. Billy

    I fish, therefore, I am………………..Happy!

    No Bait Is TOO BIG

    “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman….but that was the thing I was born for”-Old Man and The SEA

    born to fish-forced to work

    Pictures are only as honest as the person with the camera.

    Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll be broke and hungry the rest of his life!

    I like my bait like my women. Big & Fresh.

    “Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.”

    and my favorite:

    If you want to think like a fish, you have to drink like a fish.

  5. steve says:

    “Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll be broke and hungry the rest of his life! ”

    I like this quote Dave, I guess it reminds me of ME.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone……here’s to 2009!!

  6. Rob says:

    Happy New Year to you as well Steve!!! Are the lakes frozen down your way? They sure are up here, solid as a rock. :sad:

  7. Nomad says:

    I need to check here more often during the off season ;)

    Jenn, good to hear from you, hope things are well. I still check your blog from time to time.

    Hunterdave, thanks for the additions; how’s life these days? You all ready for spring?

    Rob, I doubt Steve can answer that as he’s currently in a much warmer part of the world, again.

  8. steve says:

    LOL, yep I’m in one mile deep water and it’s not hard at all, in fact it’s 90+ degrees here today!!

    Rob,
    I went fishing a couple of weeks ago and all the waters I fished at this time last year were all hard :sad: so it’s a good time to come back to Nigeria and make some money!!
    I hope they water is soft when I get home in just over 2 weeks, but I doubt it.

  9. john says:

    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 I die make sure you come by my house, you’ll be able to pick up $30,000 in gear for $200 (hope the ol’lady doesn’t see this).

  10. John Salamon says:

    Some witty quotes, love em!

    Freshwater Lures

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