Fishing quotes roll off the tongues of experienced anglers. Why? We have plenty of time to think about them. Someone once said that distaste for fishing is nothing less than hating the moonlight or denouncing a mother’s love.
There is nothing like fishing in this world. It is an art for some, a sport for others, but it’s something indefinable for many. It’s an enigma to many and something that makes them feel closer to themselves.
There are very few things in life that allow you to unwind from the pressures of life like fishing. The time you spend fishing, you will love every minute of it. Here are some beautiful and funny fishing quotes and sayings that will make you feel even more special about fishing.
Good Fishing Quotes
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
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Washington Irving
When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation.
E.T. Brown
I don’t exaggerate – I just remember big.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
Funny Fishing Quotes
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
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
Unknown
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright
I only make movies to finance my fishing.
Lee Marvin
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
Patrick F. McManus
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A. Best
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
Unknown
Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
Paul Schullery
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
Fisherman Quotes
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.
Jack Nicklaus
In Montana, whether you’re a farmer, whether you’re a fisherman… you know that the climate is changing, and we need to do something about it.
Steve Bullock
…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.
William Sherwood Fox
You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
Alain Ducasse
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman’s job is simple: Pick out the best parts.
Charles Waterman
Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
Ed Zern
Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
Ernest Hemingway
There are two types of fishermen – those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.
Unknown
All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.
Harold F. Blaisdell
The best way to a fisherman’s heart is through his fly.
Unknown
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.
John Gierach
Fishing Sayings
Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn’t go to colleges… he got guys off the fishing docks.
Jeff Foxworthy
Gone fishin’, be back at dark-thirty!
Unknown
There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night… You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
Mariano Rivera
Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God.
Tony Blake
Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I’m a happy camper!
George Foreman
If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business.
Sparse Grey Hackle
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
Patrick F. McManus
Somebody behind you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest Hemingway
If fishing is religion, fly fishing is high church.
Tom Brokaw
Be patient and calm—for no one can catch fish in anger.
Herbert Hoover
To him, all good things—trout as well as eternal salvation—come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
Norman Maclean
The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.
Robert Traver
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Quotes About Fishing
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 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.
Ted Hughes
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions of hope.
John Buchan
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover
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
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Izaak Walton
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
Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men–for all men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover
The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.
Fennel Hudson
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Fishing Quotes and Sayings
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Izaak Walton
Good things come to those who bait.
Unknown
Even if you’ve been fishing for three hours and haven’t gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you’re still better off than the worm.
Unknown
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
Irish Proverb
It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.
Fennel Hudson
It is not a fish until it is on the bank.
British Proverb
There’s always an opportunity to fish for something – even if it’s just for laughs or ideas.
Fennel Hudson
Castaway your troubles. Go fishings.
Unknown
Early to bed,
Early to rise,
Fish all day,
Make up lies.
Unknown
The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Babylonian Proverb
You cannot catch trout with dry breeches.
Spanish Proverb
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
Unknown
— Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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