Fishing Tackle Quotes

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.

I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.

I deep sea fish a lot.

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

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

I don't get to fish that much, believe me.

I won't go deep sea fishing. The first time I experienced it, I went salmon fishing. My problem is, before I even get to the fish, I have vomited. You have to go out five miles, and you are just throwing a line in and bringing them to the surface. And then you have to go back five miles, and all of a sudden the wind comes up, and it gets choppy.

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

President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard.

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

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

I like to fish. I'm an outdoorsman. I love to hunt and fish.

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

In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.

Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

I've fished everywhere I've traveled.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.