Quotes about fishing

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

— Tom Brokaw

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

— Ernest Hemingway

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

— Edgar Watson Howe

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

— Don Marquis

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

— John Ruskin

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

— Herb Shriner

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

— Henry David Thoreau

Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.

— Source Unknown

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

— Izaak Walton

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

— Izaak Walton

Tight Lines and Squealin' Reels Put a Smile on My Face Every Time

— Gary Turner

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

— Samuel Johnson