Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

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

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Probably fishing is my first passion.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.

I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.

I don't fish but had always wanted to after doing it as a kid.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.