fishing quotes

New Fishing Quotes and Sayings – Jul 09, 2008

I have just added 36 more quotes to the quotes page. They are from 657 to 692.

My pick of the new bunch of quotations – (673) …

“Technical words and phrases have crept out to fuddle fly fishing, and the simplicity the small boy and Izaak Walton imparted to the sport is becoming burdened with complexity.”

– Jack Denton Scott

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New Fishing Quote, Fishing Smarter – Jul 1, 2008

“Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler.
A “smart” trout is only smarter than other than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day’s conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch.
He competes with a concept, not with a fish’s brain.”

Lee Wulff, ‘Some Fishing Basics’ in Rod and Reel Magazine, January 1981

A quote from the 650+ quotes on fishing and fishermen, here on my web site.

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New Fishing Quotes and Sayings – Mar 5, 2008

The number of quotes, with a bunch of new ones (8) just added, brings the total to 648.

My favourite of the new additions:

“Far away Tongariro! Green – white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.” – Zane Grey 1927

My choice has nothing to do with where I live of course!

Had three days on the very same beast of a river, the Tongariro, a week or two back. Got lots of fish, got tested and beaten time and again, got eaten by little black beasties, got fish by chucking and ducking tiny nymphs behind a kilo of split shot, got fish on tiny dry flies, got fish on heavy Prince Nymphs, got leg-sore, arm sore and exhausted, got to have a hell of a great time. It is a great river!

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New Fishing Quotes and Sayings – Feb 14, 2008

I recently added 10 new quotes and sayings to the  quotes page, bringing the total to 640.

Of the new quotes, this one caught my eye, a rather good twist on and old quote:

“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he’ll eat for weeks!”

– Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005