289 Quotes About Fishing

It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls.

The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.

Living near the Hawaiian fishing village of Milolii on the Island of Hawaii put me in frequent contact with the Hawaiians. I found them to be good people that treated me well and we were harmonious neighbors.

Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the “individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, which he is apart, suffers”.

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

When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue”.

The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured by Him. And His hook is going to have a bite. Of course, it's going to hurt. The truth hurts when we are sinners and when we acknowledge we are not surrendering to the truth.