168+ Fishing Quotes And Saying

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FISHING QUOTES

A woman, who has never seen her husband fishing, doesn’t know what a patient man she married!

Angling is extremely time-consuming. That’s sort of the whole point.” – Thomas McGuane

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

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I’m a happy camper! – George Foreman

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. – Izaak Walton

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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 airbags 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.”

Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger.” – Herbert Hoover

By the time I had turned thirty, I’d realized two important things. One, I had to fish. Two, I had to work for a living.” – Mallory Burton

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

Catching fish is low on my agenda when I go fishing. I’m much more interested in savoring the day and exploring the wildlife of the river. – Fennel Hudson

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown on stage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing. – Les Claypool

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.” – John Gierach

Dear God, grant me the serenity to accept the size of the fish I catch, the courage not to lie about it, and the wisdom to know that none of my fishing buddies would believe me anyway. Amen

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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you. Particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.” – Mark Twain

Even a fish wouldn’t get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut

Everyone should believe in something; I believe I’ll go fishing.” – Henry David Thoreau

Fisherman’s prayer: Lord, help me to catch fish so large, that even I, in the telling of it, never need to lie,”

Fishing in a place, is a meditation on the rhythm of a tide, a season, an arc of a year, and the seasons of life.” – Carl Safina

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.” – Don Marquis

Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men- for all men are equal before fish.” – Herbert Hoover

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.” – Herbert Hoover

Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it.” Harry Middleton

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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.” – Ted Hughes

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life. It’s time enough to realize that every generalization stands opposed by a mosaic of exceptions and that the biggest truths are few indeed. – Carl Safina

Fishing sayings are the fishing phrases that are so popular that no one is sure who said it first. We have sprinkled a few funny fish sayings into the list as well.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.” – F. W. Howe

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.” – Jim Harrison

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.” – Jimmy Cannon

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.” – Ed Zern

Fly fishing for trout is like raising children; you never know what’s going to happen next.” – Jimmy D. Moore

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Fly fishing may be considered the most beautiful of all rural sports.” – Frank Forester

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.” – John D. Voelker

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It’s not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.” – John Gierach

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.” – Arnold Gingrich

For some, fishing is a way of life. These fishing quotes about life and quotes about fish and life are for them.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.” – George Carlin

Give a man a fish, and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish, and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.” – Zenna Schaffer

Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.” – Scott Adams

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime

Give a man a fish; he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will find the bait in the fridge

Gone fishing, bass you later.”

Gone fishing. Be back for deer season.”

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Gone fishing. Be back when it’s dark.”

Good friends are like fish. You need to have the patience to catch a good one.” – Achirman Roy

Happiness is a big fish and a witness

Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams. – Fennel Hudson

Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.” – Fennel Hudson

Here are some I love fishing” quotes and quotes about the love of fishing.

I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.” – Brian Murphy

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy. – Anthony Doerr

I don’t exaggerate – I just remember big.” – Chi Chi Rodriguez

I don’t go fishing to escape my life; I go fishing to live my life.”

I don’t want to sit at the head table anymore. I want to go fishing.” – George Bush

I fish because I love to, not because I regard fishing as so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of man are equally unimportant; and not nearly so much fun.”

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.” – Nick Lyons

I fish to scratch the surface of those mysteries, for nearness to the beautiful, and to reassure myself the world remains.” – Carl Safina

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.” – Joseph Monniger

I got 99 problems, and fishing solves all of ’em.” – Earl Dibbles Jr

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I had to call in sick, my arm is in a cast

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.” – Roderick Haig Brown

I have laid aside business, and gone a’fishing.” – Izaak Walton

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.” – Tom Felton

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.” Izaak Walton

I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.” – Karl Urban

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.” – Brandi Carlile

I love fishing. It’s transcendental meditation with a punchline.” – Billy Connolly

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

I love talk and I love fishing. I’m having a ball.” – Martin Milner

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I only hope the fish will take half as much trouble for me as I’ve taken for them” – Rudyard Kipling

I only make movies to finance my fishing.” – Lee Marvin

I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature. -Fennel Hudson

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet, and peaceful. I mean, there’s no noise other than nature… and it’s so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. – Tiger Woods

If all politicians fished, instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.” Will Rogers

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.” – Tom Brokaw

If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business.” – Sparse Grey Hackle

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.” – Zane Grey

If I’m not fishing, I’m thinking about it

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” – Doug Larson

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If you are looking for funny quotes on fishing here is our list of funny fishing sayings. These funny fishing quotes are always worth a chuckle or two.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook. – Lee Trevino

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If you’ve got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.” – Jack Ohman

If, as I suspect, trout fishing is something of a disease, then it is also something of therapy in itself.” –Tom Sutcliffe

In every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.” Ray Bergman

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing” – Norman in A River Runs Through It”

In this ever-changing world, there are few things that have remained constant for me. The chance of hooking a nice trout still excites and thrills me to this day… just as it did when I was a kid. I like that! – M.A. Bookout

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.” – John Steinbeck

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.” –  Theodore Gordon

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It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish” – Stephen Leacock

It’s okay to have fish because they don’t have feelings.” – Kurt Cobain

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I’d rather have a bad day fishing, than a good day at work

I’ve gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.” – William G. Tapply

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” – Henry David Thoreau

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.” Jimmy Carter

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it’s a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn’t trust with your wife.” – John Voelker

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Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman’s job is simple: Pick out the best parts.” – Charles Waterman

My biggest worry is that when I’m dead and gone, my wife will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. – Koos Brandt

My dad was a fisherman, but he quit because his net income wasn’t enough

My golf game’s gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.” – Ben Crenshaw

My mind has gone fishing. Ask questions tomorrow.”

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-governed angler.” Izaak Walton

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught

O, Sir, doubt not that angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?” – Izaak Walton

Of course, I talk to myself when I’m fishing. Sometimes I need expert advice

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing.” – Norman Maclean

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One thing becomes clearer as one gets older and one’s fishing experience increases, and that is the paramount importance of one’s fishing companions.” – John Ashley Cooper

Probably fishing is my first passion. – Luke Bryan

Procrastifishing: the art of going fishing when you should be doing something else

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

Sharing the fun of fishing turns strangers into friends in a few hours.” – Eugenie Clark

So long, and thanks for all the fish.” – Douglas Adams

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Some go church and think about fishing; others go fishing and think about God.” – Tony Blake

Some people will just never understand us, fishing isn’t just a pass time or a sport, it’s a way of life..

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

Sometimes, when the water is quiet, you can almost hear the fish laughing at you

Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I should never be able to enjoy it if I had to rely on the cooperation of the fish.” – Sparse Grey Hackle.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.” – Garison Keillor

The act of fishing transports us to a special world and a state of mind where we are free.” – Fennel Hadson

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.” – Theodore Gordon

The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which is Heraclitus’ river, which is never the same as the angler is never the same, yet is the same always – are those he recollects in tranquillity, as wintry weather lashes the land without, and he, snug and warm, ties new patterns of dry-fly, and remembers the leaf-dapple upon clear water and the play of light and the eternal dance of ranunculus in the chalk-stream. – G.M.W. Wemyss

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.” – John Gierach

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The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.” – Robert Traver

The best time to go fishing is when you can.” – Ed Zern

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of something that is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hop.” – John Bucha

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope” – John Buchan

The fish and I were both stunned and disbelieving to find ourselves connected by a line.” – William Humphrey

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.” – Arnold Gingrich

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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.” –T.H. White

The fisherman knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” –Vincent Van Gogh

The fishing is a great relief for me. When I’m out there’s no cell phone ringing. I’m out there fishing with bears. I’m in the middle of God’s country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.” – Rich Barry

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.” – A. Best

The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.” – Herbert Hoover

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.” – Theodore Gordon

The man who coined the phrase ‘money can’t buy happiness,’ never bought himself a good fly rod.” – Reg Baird

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.” – John Gierach

The two best times to fish is when it’s raining and when it ain’t.” – Patrick F. McManus

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon. – Jack Nicklaus

There are some fish that cannot be caught. It’s not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they’re just touched by something extra.” – Edward Bloom

There are two things in life you should never be late for, Number one is Church and Number two is fishing.”

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

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.” – Washington Irving

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.” – Patrick F. McManus

There is no losing in fishing. You either catch or you learn. Either way, it’s better than work

There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.” – Roderick Haig Brown

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.” – Steven Wright

These are our favorite fishing quotes that range from thought-provoking to witty to motivational.

Tight lines, warm breezes, good friends, plenty of bait it doesn’t get any better

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” – Henry David Thoreau

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” – Henry David Thoreau

To go fishing is one of the most pleasurable experiences I can imagine. – Fennel Hudson

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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn’t kill a fly myself but I’ve no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No, bother. Out you come. Thump. And that’s not the only reason.” –  Norman MacCaig

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.” – Patrick F. McManus

When nothing is going right, go fishing

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.” – Mark Twain

Who doesn’t want to put up a ‘Gone Fishing’ sign sometimes? These gone fishing quotes are for just those occasions.

Work is for people who can’t fish

Work is for people who don’t know how to fish!

You can’t buy happiness, but you can go fishing, and that’s pretty much the same thing