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Five New Fishing Quotations and Sayings: Jul 24 2013

Here we go with some wit and wisdom wrapped around fishing – quote numbers 1151 – 1155.

“I can think of nothing material that has been substantively improved for the angler in the past fifty years, except his waders”
– Gordon Wickstrom, Late in an Angler’s Life

“The choice between the rainbow – often easier to hook and harder to land, and the brown – always harder to hook and sometimes easier to land, is a matter of taste and style, and there are no rights and wrongs in the matter.”
– Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand

“One man’s fish is another man’s poisson” 
– Hoo Izit

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.”
– Garrison Keillor

“When I die, I want one of life’s great mysteries revealed to me: if some slob can carry a full 12 ounce can of beer half a mile to stream, why the hell can’t he carry it out when it is empty?”
– R. Chad Chorney, Blood Knot Magazine

Now 1155 fishing quotations here.

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Five new fishing quotes and sayings: 12 July 2013 Numbers 1146 – 1150

“There are several kinds of trout liars. The liar of weights, who never catches more than half a dozen trout a day, but they can weigh anywhere from 8 lb. to 10 lb. Then there is the liar of numbers, who always catches so many dozens in an hour and 28 minutes. And there is the liar of places, who knows hidden pools, dark and still, in the secret places of the rocks that are just boiling over with trout … and you fish in them for eight mortal hours without a nibble.”
– Written in 1988, nothing changes

“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.”
– P J O’Rourke

“If today was a fish I’d throw it back.”

“Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing.”
– Mario Lopez (Think this quote may have been more accurate with the insertion of "good" before "guide" – Bish)

“Learning something new about angling always excites my brain—what would take a specific fish, why it was feeding, how to solve an individual angling problem.”
– Nick Lyons

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Five new fishing quotes and sayings 29 June 2013 – total now 1145

“If you aren’t a fisher you’ll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit.  It’s different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story….”
– Paul Schullery

“What we are doing to the rivers of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to future generations”
– Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi

“Suddenly "4x" was the latest in a long line of stupid decisions I’ve made in my life”
– Bruce Smithhammer

“Fishing is the lonely sport: for dreamers, star gazers, storm chasers.”
– Alan Harawitz

“Sometimes when the water is quiet…you can almost hear the fish laughing at you”
– Sum Won

See all 1445 fishing quotes and sayings here.

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 02 June 2013

Five more quotes and sayings on the sport we love – troll through the whole 1140 on my website quotes page.

“Normally people learn to cast, then to cast really far, and finally to cast short and actually fish.”
– Normann Kotzurek, Fishing Guide and Instructor Quoted in Scale Magazine.

“It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.”
-Charles Dudley Warner, as quoted by Nessmuk in Woodcraft and Camping circa 1920

“There is nothing – not friends, not books, not lawyers, guns, or money – nothing can prepare you for this moment when you first stalk a flat scanning for bonefish… because bonefish in the water, for all intents and purposes, are invisible.”
– Dave Ames, Ju Ju Travel

“I fill my life with noise, banging drums on the edge of the abyss… I knew it was time to take off, and go fishing.”
– Charles Rangeley Wilson, Somewhere Else

“There’s just something about watching fish take a surface fly that I can’t get out of my head.”
– Craig Mathews

The quotes above are numbers 1136 through 1140 on the quotes webpage.

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Five New Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 4 May 2013 Total Now 1135

Just put up 5 new fishing quotes and sayings: Numbers 1131 -1135

“There is no losing in fishing. You either catch or you learn. Either way, its way better than work.”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he has to buy rods, reels, lines, waders, vests, fly-boxes, flies, leaders, polarized glasses, nets, floatants…” – Seen on T-Shirt

“When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.” – Paul Schullery

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” – Hunter S Thompson

“It was a great grin worth a thousand words, a shrug every guide should master, a grin explaining why in the same feeding lane some trout will take a nymph, some a pupae, and others only a #23 spent-wing midge tied on a hook hand forged in Kenya just after sunrise on a winter solstice.” – Dave Ames in ‘Ju Ju Travel’

See all 1135 quotes here.

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 13 Mar 2013

More marvellous musings on the pleasurable pursuit of fish.

“Whether we tie a fly or choose a pattern from a bin at the shop, we enlist it in a story of our own making.” – Ted Leeson 

“Fish eat worms and salmon eggs and marshmallows. I mean if it’s just about catching fish, you wouldn’t be sitting here watching this video — it’s about tying nice flies.”
– Charlie Craven

"A beautiful pattern poorly tied does not make for a beautiful fly.  But an ugly pattern brilliantly tied might, because it embodies hope.” – Erin Block

“Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.” – Norm Dicks

“Reading the features you would get the impression that this year’s crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.” – Tony Bishop

Yes, I know the quote above is from one of my articles on the blog, but more than several people have suggested it for the quotes page. You will judge the quote’s merit, or otherwise.

1130 more quotes here.

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Five New Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 15 Feb 2013

Five more perfectly presented pensive postulations on the pleasure of piscine pursuits – enjoy!

“Do not blindly accept statements about 95 and 98 percent knots. Even if a claim is the product of rigorous testing, it indicates what a knot can achieve rather than what it will always achieve.” – Art Scheck

“To insist that fly fishing is all about catching fish is like saying the only reason for sex is procreation. In essence, yes, it is true, but how much we would be missing out on if that was all there was.” – Derek Grzelewski

“Fly fishing is the rip-cord for escape.” – Mike Delph

“…any old bit of carpet wrapped round a hook will catch a trout. It is how it behaves in the water that counts.” – Arthur Cove

“Who cares about finding a unified theory of the universe? What we need is a unified theory of fly-fishing.” – Graig Spolek

These quotes are numbers 1121 – 1125 on the fishing quotes page, where you can find another 1120 quotes.

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 10 Jan 2013

“Water, in short, is all. More than anything it is that glinting, tantalising horizontal veil, the surface of water, dividing so absolutely one realm from another, which gives angling its mystery, its magic, its endless speculation”
– The Magic Wheel: An Anthology of Fishing Literature . Editor, with Graham Swift, London, Picador, 1985

“I see too many folks using a pretty repetitive 16-inch pull.  And though this still catches plenty of fish, many are the times where something more akin to puppetry of the fly makes the larger and smarter fish come out of the woodwork”
– Frank Smethhurst

“I always fish with better anglers than myself. That way I get to see nice fish being caught”
– Unaccomplished Angler (Blog)

“I want to learn something new every day. And this river gives me a chance to do that. Isn’t it true that you want to learn as much as you can about things you love?”
– Denny Breer

“Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.”
– Yvon Chouinard

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings: 29 Dec 2012

Up now, five new quotes from the fishing world – numbers 1111 – 1115.

“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone’s mood and everyone’s pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found… Angling’s problems are never solved.”
– Lee Wulfe 1939

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it… If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis… and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen… all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish… and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did… then someone will say, "Let us arise, and go fishing."
– Paul Torday: ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’

“I must have looked like a beady-eyed nutso, as she gave me a pitying look and stared out the window. I am a beady-eyed nutso. After all, I spend hours tying flies that match sea-run food, gauging tides, and casting my arm off — even with no guarantee of catching a fish.”
– Chester Allen

“There are also many days when I have searched for big trout without so much as a spooked fish. Through countless cups of coffee, driving all night, and storms that were so bad that I wondered if it was even possible to cast in these conditions…Nothing in fishing is predictable. Maybe you’ll be rewarded sooner than you imagine. On slow days I make a point to run through all the little circumstances of the day, determining if something is different from years past. This has been a learning tool to better understand trout behaviour, migrating patterns, and areas where they may be holding. If I didn’t take the time to pay my dues and continue to learn, I would not fully understand when or where to catch fish”
– Landon Mayer

“Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.”
– Jimmy Carter

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Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings: Now 1110

Up now, five more quotes, quips a quriosities, bring the total to 1110. The New quotes are numbers 1106 – 1110 on the quotes page.

“Marriage is like deep-sea fishing. You never know what you’ve got until you get it in the boat.” 
– Dick Bothwell

“To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.”
– Robert Traver

“The trouble with fishing is it was better before you got there, and after you left.”
– Un Noin

“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“You see, I’m not a grip ‘n grin man.  I prefer to fish from the shadows, and stay in the shadows, even after I land something big.  I have a face that’s made for radio, and a passion for fly fishing that’s rooted somewhere that can’t be captured, no matter how many megapixels are devoted to it.”
– Kirk Deeter

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