If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.
One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing
We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. . . . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.
Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.
Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated
Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.
Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?
Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.
To fish in troubled waters.
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.
I have other fish to fry.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.
. . . everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.