William Shakespeare Quotes

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

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.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

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

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

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

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

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 largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.