121 Quotes on Fishing to Rejuvinate You from Daily Busy Life

When we fish, we are awake. We are attuned to the environment, to the world, to the reverence and wonder of life. – Dan Baughman 

Fishing is fundamentally a game of chance, and at heart we are all gamblers. – Dorothy Noyes Arms 

Ours is the grandest sport. It is an intriguing battle of wits between an angler and a trout; and in addition to appreciating the tradition and grace of the game, we play it in the magnificent out-of-doors. – Ernest G. Schwiebert Jr.  

Fishing is unquestionably a form of madness but, happily, for the once-bitten there is no cure. – Lord Home 

It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish. – Stephen Leacock 

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck 

I still don’t know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel. – Roderick L. Haig-Brown 

You will search far to find a fisherman to admit that a taste for fishing, like a taste for liquor, must be governed lest it come to possess its possessor. – Sparse Grey Hackle 

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish,  Through gluttony’s vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in! – John Wolcot 

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

Fishing Quotes Short

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook. – Lee Trevino 

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job – Paul Schullery

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

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

My biggest worry is that when I’m dead and gone, my wife will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. – Koos Brandt

I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant and not nearly so much fun. – Robert Traver 

Don’t worry, he said, with that grandfatherly smile spreading across his face once more: ‘I’ve been fishing for over forty years._ You’ve got plenty of time to catch up, maybe even pass what I’ve done._ You’re a perspicacious piscatorial pursuer, and I’m sure you’ll catch the big ones.” – S. Bradley Stoner

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

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. – unknown

Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger. – Herbert Hoover

“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.“ – Jack Nicklaus

“Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.“ – John Gierach

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

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon. – Jack Nicklaus

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Life Is Like Fishing Quotes

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. – Ted Hughes

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

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher’s salary. – Patrick McManus

I’ve gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water. – William Tapply

For every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory._ So I say it is good to lose fish._ If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone. – Ray Bergman

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

One thing becomes clearer as one gets older and one’s fishing experience increases, and that is the paramount importance of one’s fishing companions. – John Ashley-Cooper

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning. – Theodore Gordon 

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it’s a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn’t trust with your wife – John Voelker 

More than half the intense enjoyment of fly-fishing is derived from the beautiful surroundings, the satisfaction felt from being in the open air, the new lease of life secured thereby, and the many, many pleasant recollections of all one has seen, heard and done. – Charles F. Orvis 

Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it…Harry Middleton 

In the best stories about fly fishing … big fish are caught or lost; people say wild and spontaneous words; event becomes memory and sometimes, in the hands of a master, bleeds into art. – Nick Lyons 

There will be days when fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. – Roderick Haig-Brown 

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson 

The agony and the ecstasy is a six-year-old boy trying to go to sleep, knowing he’s going fishing in the morning. – Frank P. Baron

Inspirational Fishing Quotes

Opportunity is never worth expecting; let our hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be. – Ovid 

Quite possibly this is the key to fishing: the ability to see glamor in whatever species one may fish for. – Harold F. Blaisdell 

Those who fish get to know and understand a river in a way few others can. – W.D. Wetherell 

All earth is full of happy things when the angler goes a-trolling! – Thomas Tod Stoddart 

Perhaps all you can say is that there are great lapses or discrepancies in time; that and the simple if inexplicable fact that some people have fishing in their hearts. – Russell Chatham 

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. – Jimmy Cannon 

Fishing Quotes Inspirational

The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommend it to me. – Henry David Thoreau 

Fishing is marvelous… there is the irresistible urge to tangle with the mysterious and unknown, to rely on intuition and hunches.Katharine Weber 

A boy and his dad on a fishing trip, there is a glorious fellowship! – Edgar A. Guest 

There is nothing like the thrill of expectation over the first cast in unfamiliar waters. Fishing is like gambling, in that failure only excites hope of a fortunate throw next time. – Charles Dudley Warner 

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside the brook and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish. – Hal Borland 

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. – Vincent Van Gogh