Favorite Fishing Quote

[pad slammer]

I love fishing quotes! For instance-

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles."  ~Doug Larson

Please share some of your favorites  8-)

[fishfordollars]

You should have been here yesterday.

When your fishing the bank 90% of the fish are behind you.

[roadwarrior]

"You should have been here yesterday!"

:-/

[fishfordollars]

"You should have been here yesterday!"

:-/

I beat you to it Kent.

[roadwarrior]

Too funny!

Both our posts are timed at 8:42...Great minds think alike?

;D ;D ;D ;D

[Catt]

Get in, sit down, shut up, & hold on!

#1 key to consistently catching bass is between your ears not between the folds of your wallet. Catt

[Jigfishn10]

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. Steven Wright

[Nice_Bass]

"A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to helps a child fish."

Not sure who said it, and there may be variations...

[brushhoggin]

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world. will rogers

"Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years" Charles Haas

[hitchhiker]

You're gonna need a bigger boat...

[K_Mac]

I can't find the quote or cite the author, so I'll paraphrase ::

"Most people fish their entire lives without knowing that fishing is not about catching fish."

[OHIO]

I can't find the quote or cite the author, so I'll paraphrase ::

"Most people fish their entire lives without knowing that fishing is not about catching fish."

It was Henry David Thoreau. I was just about to write this one, but you beat me to it.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after."

[K_Mac]

I can't find the quote or cite the author, so I'll paraphrase ::

"Most people fish their entire lives without knowing that fishing is not about catching fish."

It was Henry David Thoreau. I was just about to write this one, but you beat me to it.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after."

I like the original version better. Thanks. 8-)

[I.rar]

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. Steven Wright

Hah.

i like Dali's work.  8-)

[farmpond1]

"A fisherman is a jerk at one end of the line waiting for a jerk at the other."  Unknown.

[fourbizz]

"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder when you write a letter to your girl" -Ernest Hemmingway

[bilgerat]

"There's a fine line between fishing and standing at the edge of the water looking like an idiot"

Yubin Yerkinov

[Catt]

Give a Man a Fish, Feed Him For a Day. Teach a Man to Fish, Frustrate Him For a Lifetime.

The fish are biting somewhere and we are looking for that somewhere. Butch Covington

[bigtimfish]

It's not always about the catching, sometimes it's just about the fishing.

[Scorcher214]

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.  ~A.K. Best

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.  ~Babylonian Proverb

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.  ~Paul O'Neil, 1965

I love fishing.  You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end.  Your imagination is under there.  ~Robert Altman

[bigtimfish]

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. ~Babylonian Proverb

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. ~Robert Altman

Love it because it's so true

[piscicidal]

boat (def.)= a hole in the water into which one pours money.

[saint romain]

"I'm on a fishin' mission"...I'm sure someone else came up with it, but I'll give the credits to mawmaw.

[MattinOK]

boat (def.)= a hole in the water into which one pours money.

Ain't it the truth though!

[SuskyDude]

"Fishing: A jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other."

T"he fish don't care if its raining, they're already wet."

Suprised nobody added this one yet:

"A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work."