Wading. The most common means through which a dry-fly fisherman is transformed into a wet fly fisherman.
--Henry Beard & Roy Mckie
The Gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
--Babylonian Proverb
I will agree that worms are not the ideal bait but if between worms and an empty basket what will you?
--O.W. Smith
To capture the fish is not all of the fishing.
--Zane Gey
This guy once said to me.."I don't understand why you catch fish, then throw it back in...What's the point?"..I said to him.."Gee..The last time I seen a golfer golf all day..I don't remember seeing him eating his golfballs when he was done...."
--Unknown
An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.
--Unknown
If you catch fish every time....they would call it catching..not fishing..
--Unknown
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives...
--Gwen Cooper & Evelyn Has
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
--Samuel Johnson
All fishermen are liars except you and me and to tell you the truth, I'm not so sure about you!
--Unknown
Some men catch fish. Others simply feed them.
--James J. Hood
"In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all, but a part of the whole. The free, self-reliant, adventurous life, with it's rugged and stalwart democracy; the wild surroundings, the grand beauty of the scenery, the chance to study the ways and habits of the woodland creatures - all these unite to give the career of the wilderness hunter its particular charm. The chase is among the best of all national pastimes: it cultivates that vigourous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
--Aldo Leopold
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
--Izaac Walton
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls, say, neatly bound bluebirds.
--Jim Harrison
Wishing and fishing is not for me, fishing and wishing brings me down on one knee and unless I'm flipping an overhung tree wishing & fishing is just history.
--Unknown
