289 Quotes About Fishing




  • Author Norman Maclean
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    He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

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  • Author Norman Maclean
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    My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

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  • Author Norman Maclean
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    Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

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  • Author Norman Maclean
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    Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

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  • Author Tim Blake Nelson
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    I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

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