Izaak Walton Quotes

I've fished since I was a teenager. It's one of the most fantastic activities, and there's so much to it. I just love every facet of it. I've never had a bad day fishing.

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

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.

After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

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.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

Fly-fishing is really addictive.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

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

I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.

Hobbies-wise, I love to carp fish. I like to be on the bank when I have some downtime.

I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.

I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.

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

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

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

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.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.