Funny Fishing Quotes

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

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

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

Good things come to those who wait.

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

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.

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.

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

There is no such thing as too much snow.

The best time to go fishing is when you can

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.

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

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

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

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.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

I don’t know what’s on the other side.

Good things come to those who initiate.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

The two best times to fish is when it’s raining and when it ain’t.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Good things come to those who hustle

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he’ll figure it out.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

I don’t exaggerate – I just remember big.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

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

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

There’s no such thing as too much power!

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

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

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

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

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