Thomas A. Edison Quotes

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

All fish are not caught with flies

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it.

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.

If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Hillary Clinton lies a lot. She has bad judgment. She created ISIS with her stupidity.

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.