Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
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.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.
The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up.
I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since.
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.
Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
Normally if I am on holiday I'll be planning a fishing trip or a surfing trip.
