Month: October 2009

New Fishing Quotes & Sayings – Oct 23, 2009

A sparkling new bunch of fishing quotes and sayings is up now to shed some perceptive light on the sport we love. Numbers 881 – 885

This posts pick:

“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.”

– Thomas McGuane

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Muddy Waters – Of Mud, Mothers, Eels and the Boy

Reading the story in my last post about a big eel attacking a trout here in New Zealand reminded me that the first story I ever wrote for New Zealand Fishing News magazine was about eels.

It was written about 22 years ago – don’t time fly! It was pretty well received way back then, so maybe it is time for a re-run. Have a read here

Posted by Tony Bishop in fishing humour, New Zealand Fishing

5 More Fishing Quotes and Sayings – Oct 3, 2009

And so we climb inexorably (Thank big G for a spell checker) towards 1000 fishy quotes and sayings – numbers 871 – 875 are up now.

My pick of today’s bunch:

“And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.”

Dame Juliana Berners -The Boke of St. Albans- 1496

I guess this is as true today as it was 500 years ago. What is also true is how much English has changed (and is still changing) over the same time frame.

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More fishing quotes and sayings – Oct 1, 2009

Have just put up 10 more fishing quotes and sayings for your perusal and pleasure numbers 846 – 855.

My pick:

I love to watch Norman work out a fly. It’s like a ballet or something, the way the white line loops out against the dark trees like rope tricks at magic shows. I don’t know how he does it, but I probably catch more fish than he does, with only a worm on. Sometimes I’ll put on a Mepps or something and cast, but then maybe the line gets all screwed up on the reel. Norman says it’s cause girls elbows are built funny, but I don’t think it matters. He says catching fish is nice, but that that’s not the point. “Gracie,” he’ll say, “if all I wanted was fish, I’d use a net.

Dan Gerber – The Way A Woman Thinks

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