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

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

A. Best
fishing sea lakes

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

Achim Steiner
secrecy veils fishing

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

Aldo Leopold
hunting fishing wind
If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fis... by Alex Faickney Osborn

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

Alex Faickney Osborn
fishing education may
The great fish eat the small. by Alexander Barclay

The great fish eat the small.

Alexander Barclay
fishing sea lakes
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries wh... by Ambrose Bierce

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Ambrose Bierce
fishing sea lakes

Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go fishing for friends. Part of me suspects that they wouldn't like me, or that I wouldn't like them, which would inevitably get in the way of the mission. None of the theory built around translation matters to me anyway: much of the process, I find, is intuitive.

Andre Naffis-Sahely
fishing matter littles

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

Andrew Lang
fishing sea rivers

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

Andrew Stanton
hobbies fishing home

There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.

Anthony Hopkins
fishing air reality

Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

Arlo Guthrie
lines fishing thinking
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. by Arnold Gingrich

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

Arnold Gingrich
standing fishing fun
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it. by Arnold Gingrich

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

Arnold Gingrich
fishing sea lakes
The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner. by Arnold Gingrich

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

Arnold Gingrich
fishing sea lakes
I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish. by Arnold Gingrich

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

Arnold Gingrich
important fishing believe
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in si... by Arnold Gingrich

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Arnold Gingrich
fishing sea lakes

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

Arnold Gingrich
three fishing sex

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

Arnold Gingrich
fishing sea lakes
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us... by Arnold Gingrich

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Arnold Gingrich
fishing sea lakes

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

Arthur Ransome
fishing sea two
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