Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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?
My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?
You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.
It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
I deep sea fish a lot.
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.
I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.
A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck
'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
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.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
