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.
No one understands the impacts of shifting fish stocks more than commercial and recreational fishermen in my district.
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.
Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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.
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
I don't get to fish that much, believe me.
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.
I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.
I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout - I've been pretty much addicted ever since.
I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.
The sea hath fish for every man.
Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.
And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.
