Curt Gowdy Quotes

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

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

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

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

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.

Probably fishing is my first passion.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

I'm not the best fly fisherman, but I can fly-fish, because I crack a whip. I learned to crack a whip as a boy... I have skills, mad skills.

I love 'Fishing With John' so much.

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.

When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since.

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

The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.

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

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

Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.