Quotes by Fishing Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. E. W. Howe fishing sea lakes A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing. Ed Engle fishing sea art English literature is a flying fish. E. M. Forster flying fishing literature I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line. Ed Weeks strong fishing sea Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. Ed Zern fisherman honest fishing I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply. Ed Zern fishing sea believe ...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream. Ed Zern fishing sea lakes The best time to go fishing is when you can Ed Zern angling best-times fishing Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off. Ed Zern fishing lakes rivers I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth. Ed Zern fishing sea morning It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates. Ed Zern fishing sea lakes Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish) Eddie Irvine big-fish fishing stories Along a stream that raced and ran Edgar Guest fishing believe thinking I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution. Enric Sala ocean fishing writing Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. Ernest Hemingway fishing sea lakes The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. Eugene Field fishes caught fishing There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike. Faith Baldwin bait stupidity fishing Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish. Ernest Hemingway fishing sea lakes Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing. Frank Zappa music fishing hands I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions. Gary A. Klein fishing weather thinking «1234567891011»