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've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
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.
Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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 object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.
Probably fishing is my first passion.
Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying -- 'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.'
Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.
Now, revealing that you're a keeper is no guarantee that this guy won't just walk away. Some men really are just sport fishing and have no intention of doing anything more than throwing back the women they bed. If this is the cae with this man, then let him walk-what do you care? He's not the guy you're looking for.
The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
When I go Miami, I go deep-sea fishing. I love doing that.
I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.
