Favorite Fishing Quote

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Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land.  It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.  ~Chuck Clark

that's why its called fishing and not catching ~ UNKNOWN

[eric21]

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark

haha I just posted that to my wifes facebook page since she just yelled for not doing the lawn ;D

[Tucson]

"Didn't get many but the ones we did catch were really small"

[RobbyZ5001]

I found this quote on Fish Chris's website awhile back.

"You can make excuses, or you can fish until you don't need any."

[WoolleyBass]

"Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts.  Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all.  This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water."  ~Author Unknown

Roby

[paangler3117]

B.O.A.T. -- Break Out Another Thousand!

When someone asks my dad where he caught his fish he always says..."In the water!"

Jim

[flippin and pitchin]

" Where there's little ones, there's big ones." J. Sewell

[NateFollmer]

"the Senko mustache"

Heard Jarrett Edwards say that last night after he caught a waky rig bass

[bilgerat]

"Golf is for people who don't know how to fish"

Some guy

[Dave P]

"There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot." Lefty Kreh

[SDoolittle]

"If our father had had his say, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him."   Norman Maclean

[Red]

I pray that I may live to fish.......

Until my dying day.

And when it comes to my last cast,

I then most humbly pray:

When in the Lord's great landing net

And peacefully asleep

That in His mercy I be judged

Big enough to keep. -Unknown

[Avalonjohn44]

I pray that I may live to fish.......

Until my dying day.

And when it comes to my last cast,

I then most humbly pray:

When in the Lord's great landing net

And peacefully asleep

That in His mercy I be judged

Big enough to keep. -Unknown

LOVE that one.

[Avalonjohn44]

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."

-Izaak Walton

[Fishing Rhino]

Never leave biting fish.

You can only eat a fish once.  Put it back, and it can be caught again.

[bocabasser]

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

-Henry David Thoreau

[Jall65]

An angler is a man who spends days sitting in his boat doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.

Saw it as a sig on another forum.

[SmokeRise1]

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip   -John Gierach

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary    -Patrick McManus

[trevor]

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

[Dave P]

OK, one more:

"I fish because I love to.

Because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly. Because of all the television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus escape.

Because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing what they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion.

Because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed, or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility, and endless patience.

Because I suspect that men are going this way for the last time and I for one don't want to waste the trip.

Because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters. Because in the woods I can find solitude without loneliness. ... And finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant and not nearly so much fun."

Robert Traver

[rboat]

1. Work is for those who do not know how to fish.

2. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink every day.

3. It is not how deep you fish, it's how you wiggle your worm.

[cufishin]

A religious man goes to church on Sundays and thinks about fishing...

A spiritual man goes fishing on Sundays and thinks about God.

[Olebiker]

Bass fishing is like a game of baseball. It's hard to get up a game tomorrow if you kill all the losers today.

We all live downstream from someone.

[Dockhead]

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.  ~Irish Blessing

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. 

~Author Unknown

The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly.  ~Author Unknown

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.  ~Paul Schullery

[BigMouthBasstard]

The fishing was awesome, the catching was not so good.

From my favorite show; family guy when peter buys a fishing boat and sets up a stand at the seafood market-

Hennisy, a competitor of Peter, grabs one of Peter's fish from his stand and throws it, Peter runs to get it back and while he is up, Hennisy puts a sign that reads "I had sex with all these fish" over the sign that read "Peter's fish." Peter comes back, and a man approaches his stand.

Man: Wow. So how do you do it?

Peter: Well, how nice of you to ask. First, I put the ol' worm out there, and they go at it, so naturally they struggle a bit, so I jerk em around and then they just lay back and accept it.