Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls… – Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991

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

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. – William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954