fishing experience Quotes

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

When we are down in Mexico, I remember with my mom's help we caught a barracuda and then we ate it that night. And that, to me, was so cool, to be able to filet it, see the whole process. Especially a fish that big.

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

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.

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

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

Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.

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

I didn't think I had time for fishing before I fished.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.

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

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

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.

I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

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

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

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

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

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