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 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
I’m a man of few words; let’s fish.
Unknown
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
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
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
Jimmy Cannon
Amusing Fishing Quotes
I got a fishing rod for my wife – good trade,
Unknown
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
Unknown
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
Zane Grey
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
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
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
We ask a simple question and that is all we wish… Are all fisherman liars or do only liars fish?
William Sherwood Fox
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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
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
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
Love of Fishing Quotes
Probably fishing is my first passion.
Luke Bryan
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
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
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
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
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 only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I’d rather go fishing for three days.
Whitey Herzog
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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
Good Fishing Insights
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
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
John Steinbeck
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 Tapply
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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
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
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
Lee Wulff
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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
Cast away 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
Inspirational Fishing Quotes
Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it,
Harry Middleton
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
The act of fishing – for fish, dreams, or whatever magic is available – is enough. It transports us to a special world and a state of mind where we are free.
Fennel Hudson
When I go fishing I like to know that there’s nobody within five miles of me.
Norman MacCaig
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet, and peaceful.
Tiger Woods
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
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 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
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu
Love of Fishing Quotes
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.
Unknown
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
Roderick Haig Brown
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
It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish.
Stephen Leacock
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
Angling is extremely time-consuming. That’s sort of the whole point.
Thomas McGuane
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
There are only two occasions when American respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. Herbert Hoover
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis
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
Carpe Diem,’ does not mean ‘fish of the day.
Unknown
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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