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5 New Fishing Quotations and Sayings: 30 Oct 2014

Five new fishing quotations and sayings, plus comment and wise stuff, brings the total to 1220 . Five latest are numbers 1216 to 1220.

“What do the little fishes do that make most truthful men untrue?”

– Joseph Morris – Number 1216

“The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.”

Christopher Camuto – Number 1217

“About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won’t catch fish if it stays in its box.”

– Arnold Gingrich – Number 1218

“Datin’is a lot like fishin’. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.”

Earl Dibbles Jr. – Number 1219

“These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say “Gone Fishin’” or “Gone Huntin’”. But what these slogans really mean is “Gone Killing.”

Marc Bekoff – Number 1220

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Five More Fishing Quotations and Sayings – 5 September 2014

They just keep coming – 5 more fishing quotations and sayings bring the total to 1215.

“Fly tying – The art of attaching feathers, fur, wool, and silk to a tiny hook to create artificial lures that imitate insects, a skill easily mastered by anyone who can peel a grape blindfolded with a pair of tweezers and a butter knife while wearing oven mitts.” – Number 1211

“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.” Thomas McGuane – Number 1212

“In my opinion, fishing then becomes a mirror which reflects all of our being and our values in life – and in return our values determine how we fish. One goes into the other and the boundaries merge… Doing becomes being and being becomes doing; a magic circle with no beginning or end and our hearts always standing where they belong – directly in the centre.” Lani Waller – Number 1213

“There is nothing so gone as a lost fish!” – Number 1214

“To say it was all just a matter of catching fish would be like saying that astronomy is nothing more than noticing the stars.” Harry Middleton – number 1215

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Five More Fishing Quotations and Sayings: 30 May 2014

Just caught 5 more quotations and sayings about fishing, fish and fishers: Numbers 1201 – 1205. See all 1205 quotes here.

“When I take a fly out of my vise I nearly always say, ‘I can do better.’  And on every fly I tie, I honestly try to do that.”
– Charlie Craven

“… it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.”
– Ed Zern

“Silently observing the water, choosing the right fly and the constant casting appeared to me like a certain form of choreography.”
– NA

“The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in thought. Thought -to call it by a prouder name than it deserved- had let its line down into the stream. It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it until -you know the little tug — the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one’s line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out? Alas, laid on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating.”
– Virginia Woolf

“I do not know anything more beautiful in nature than the head-and-tailing trout.”
-  Harry Plunkett-Green

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Five New Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 25 April 2014

Yea, I know it has been a little while since the last bag of fishing insight, comment and some wisdom, but the total number of fishing quotes is now up to 1200 and new stuff is getting harder to find. But I soldier on!

“The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.” 1196
Theodore Gordon

“Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life. It’s time enough to realize that every generalization stands opposed by a mosaic of exceptions, and that the biggest truths are few indeed. Meanwhile, you feel the wind shift and the temperature change. You might simply decide to be present, and observe a few facts about the drifting clouds…Fishing in a plaons of life… I fish to scratch the surface of those mysteries, for nearness to the beautiful, and to reassure myself the world remains. I fish to wash off some of my grief for the peace we so squander. I fish to dip into that great and awesome pool of power that propels these epic migrations. I fish to feel- and steal- a little of that energy.” 1197
Carl Safina The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.” 1198
Lee Wulff

“It (fishing) engages on so many levels: physically, mentally, even spiritually. You can make it to any level and it will never let you down. There is always more to explore or experience, whether you do it for a few days a year or months and months at a time.” 1199
Derek Grzelewski Interview with Otago Daily Times

“The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. “To hell with restraint,” it says, “I have got to be going.” It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.” 1200
Wendell Berry

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 10 March 2014 Now 1195

“Best time to go fishing – any time water is liquid.” #1191

“Water is peculiar stuff. It circulates mysteriously, rising invisibly from the sea as vapour, forming clouds, falling as rain, creating streams and rivers that return again to the sea. You can swallow it in sips, but it can swallow you whole if you fall into a deep place. You can’t catch hold of it, but it can catch hold of you, even if you just look at it” #1192

“The previous night, a warm, calm summer’s evening, Yates stepped out of his home in Dorset and sat with his rod by a pool until gone 2am. "When the line moved, there was a little blister on the surface of the water, lit by the moon. You think, ‘What is that?’ and it can be completely terrifying. Even after 50 years of fishing, that makes my heart stop. That’s my extreme fishing – getting into an intimacy with this unknown world and not knowing where it’s going to lead, and what apparition you will behold.” #1193

Quoting Chris Yates

“Fly-fishing is not difficult, but it is complex; there are a lot of small things that have to come together and unless they add up, nothing really happens in regards catching fish” #1194

Quoted in Otago Daily Times

“The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft.  Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.” #1195

Robert Traver – Anatomy of a Fisherman

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings Jan 23 2014

Five more fishing quotations for your edification and maybe education – Quote Numbers 1181 to 1185.

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

Hermann Hesse Siddharth

“Lyin’ is lyin’, be it about fish or money and is forbid by Scripter … Billy Matison’s got to give up fish-lyin’ or he won’t never get into the kingdom”

Ellis Parker Butler

“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”

Jerome K Jerome

“The number of fishermen today who go out on a boat with the intention of catching fish is very disenchanting. It degrades fishing into a hobby”

Bauvard The Prince of Plungers

“We caught him,” I said. “That’s the fun part.” For us, at least. I doubt the fish would agree”

Kathy Reichstest

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Five New Fishing Quotes and Sayings: Nov 22 2013

Trolled up from the depths of fishing literature, five more pieces of fishing wisdom. Numbers 1171 – 1175

“Of all the things I have to accept in life, I pray silently that God will never let me know the last time I fish.”

– NA

“The things fishermen know about trout aren’t facts but articles of faith.”

John Gierach

“I’ll be really glad when I’ve had enough of this! ”

– Fred J Taylor (on cold weather fishing)

“Fishing adds years to your life, and life to your years.”

Homer Circle

“It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year”

– NA  (Maybe never the same on any two days in a lifetime? – Bish)

 

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New Fishing Quotes and Sayings 16 Oct 2013: Now 1170

Pithy pronouncements pouring from pens of perceptive piscators:
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“You cannot lose what you never had.”

– Isaac Walton – The Compleat Angler  Quote Num 1166
(Bit of an observation not just about fishing, but including life, the Universe and the whole damn thing.)

“Sight casting requires you to witness your failures, an indignity spared those fishing blind. Perhaps that’s one reason why casting to the current is more relaxing than casting to a fish.”

-  E. Donnal Thomas Jr  – Dream Fish And Road Trips Quote num 1167

“It is axiomatic in fly-fishing that the hottest pattern is always the one you don’t have.”

– Ted Leeson – Inventing Montana Quote num 1168

“A professional fishing guide is defined, in strict terms, as the guy who has successfully convinced his wife he is actually making a living and supporting the family in this pursuit. An excellent guide is one who can come home at night, moan about how hard he worked that day, and talk his wife into giving him a foot rub.”

– Rich Tosches  -  Zipping My Fly Quote Num 1169

“The take to a deep-sunk fly just as it begins to swing across current, followed by the line shearing through water and, often, a trout taking to air a remarkable distance from where the line disappears, is heady stuff indeed.”

– Scott Sadil  Quote Num 1170

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New Fishing Quotes and Sayings 17 Sep 2013

Five new quotes and sayings trawled up from the sea of words enveloping our sport.

“If it appears I’m ignoring you it is most likely I’m – busy fishing – thinking about fishing – talking about fishing – reading about  fishing – or I’m just plain not interested in what you are talking about!”
– some brave but not forthcoming soul (1161)

“When it comes to this fishing there is no black and white. It is all gray. The only absolutes have to do with rigging, before you ever get out there.”
– Stu Apte  (1162)

“Somehow you’ve got to get that fly to drift without a tug from your leader. One heartbeat longer is often enough. There’s a fish watching, waiting. Most of them will say yes if you don’t do something that tells them no.”
– Scott Sadil (1163)

“Of all nature’s animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.”
– Herman Melville (1164)

“Water is the driving force of all nature”.
– Leonardo da Vinci (1165)

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings: August 28 2013

Just added five more fishing quotes and sayings, bringing the total on the  Quotations page to 1160.

“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything” Albert Einstein (1156)

“Don’t confuse your own incompetence with a fish’s intelligence” Jay Zimmerman (1157)

“At times, it can be like standing under a cold shower ripping up £50 notes. But when you get that bite, it’s just explosive – everyone on the boat is screaming and shouting, the fish is jumping, it’s mayhem. It’s fantastic. You can’t explain it until you’ve done it.” Kevin Gardner talking about big game fishing. (1158)

“Time on a river allows you a different perspective. It is stepping out of everyday life. From there we can see things differently. I’ve been to rivers to celebrate and I’ve been to them in times of need. It is an endless journey, really.” Derek Grzelewski вЂ?Trout Bohemian’ (1159)

“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water’s surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”
Paul Schullery (1160)

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