Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
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 is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.
The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
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.
Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up.
I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.
Normally if I am on holiday I'll be planning a fishing trip or a surfing trip.
Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper.
Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.
When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since.
