There are two types of fisherman – those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. – Author Unknown
Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. – Author Unknown
[T]his planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. – Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. – Author Unknown
I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. – Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977
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 Philosophical Fisherman, 1969
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. – Washington Irving
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. – Ernest Hemingway
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. – A.K. Best
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck
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. – Author Unknown
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. – Author Unknown
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. – Dave Barry
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
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. – John Buchan
Fishing is a… discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish. – Herbert Hoover
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. – Steven Wright
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. – Paul Schullery
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. – Jack Handey
…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. – William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
