Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.
Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.
A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.
I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.
I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.
Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck
...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.
[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard.
Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.
During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.
I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.
Fishing has been part of our culture since we landed here.
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.
There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.
The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.
