Rube Waddell loved pitching, fishing and drinking. When he died, they found him in a gin filled bathtub with three drunken trout.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise ment to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of youth that does not grow stale with old age.
It must be said that a ghillie who is a teetotaller is a very rare phenomenon indeed.
You love to fish, and so do I.
When the wind is in the south, it blows the bait to the fishes mouth.
When the wind is from the north. seldom the angler ventures forth.
Never spoil a good fish story by telling the truth.
There is no such thing as a dead shark.
The peculiarity of trout-fishing in the Traun is that one catches principally grayling.
The gods do not deduct from man's alloted span the hours spent fishing.
When trout refuse bait or fly, there ver is a storm a-nigh.
Hops and turkeys, carp and beer, came into England all in one year.
On October 10 is the birthday of Cornelia Crosby.
I would rather fish any day than go to heaven.
Floats are such pleasing things to possess that most anglers use them when they could do very much better without.
The Macedonian fly must be the most interesting fly of all time.
Curse and the tangle has got the better of you. Smile and it will untangle by itself.
I think the happiest days of my life have been spent fishing.
When the cats fight the night before, fish will not bite.
It is our aim to catch beautiful trout with beautiful flies.
My favourite sports are trout fishing, hiking, shooting, football and boxing.
Wherever there are trout it is always beautiful.
I once read of an old gentleman, a virgin, who said that having a woman must not be unlike landing a fish.
Why do people fish?
A canoe and one is company, and no amount of pickerel can make it a crowd.
He pointed to our floats and lines. "These", he said, "are our connections with the unseen forces of nature."
Arthur Aston Luce was born on August 21 in 1882 (1882-1997).
I supoose fishing for carp in the winter months is a bit like a diet ... you've reall got to want to do it.
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
A fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.
A good knot looks good.
It was such an anticlimax, so horrible and unjust. The hook had slipped and I could nothing more than fall on my face and bite the ground.
It is impossible to teach the tyro how to cast a salmon fly. othing but practice will do.
Fishing is a strange sport, if it is a sport, in which you learn just as much as you are able to believe.
The Black Pennell is for trout what the Stoat's Tail is for salmon.
It is always the week before or the week after.
Salmon have an instinctive dread of inquisitive fishermen.
Gifford Pinchot was born on August 11 1865.
No-one in Britain would dream of tucking into a fifteen-pound yuletide carp with all the trimmings. They would rather eat their own grandmothers.
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
I never lost a little fish.
Make not the sauce before you have caught the fish.
A thousand and one things in a thousand and one different shades and guises converge on the angler and the bait at the end of his line.
Everyone ought to believe in something: I believe I'll go fishing.
A tangle perhaps tells you to have a rest.
The conjunction of flamenco and fly-fishing in the character of Ed Zern helps us to appreciate the importance of both practices at once.
Silence is the golden rule if you intend to be successful in shallow water.
There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words least appropriate to any statement about it are the words "always" and "never".
A fishing rod has a fool at one end and sometimes a fish at the other.
We are all of us waiting, and I, being an angler, am used to waiting.
A tangle is a joke blown together by the Greek wind gods.
Fishing is not all about happiness. Too many fishing books make the mistake of pretending that it is.
Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt that it really ought to be done in bed.
Canon Greenwell, inventor of "Greenwell's Glory" was born on March 23 1820.
A fishing line is a potential tangle.
I got a new rod and reel for my wife ... best trade-in I ever made.
My latest theory is that the best time to catch fish is when they bite, but that view is subject to change.
Cooking and eating the fish you catch is part of the beauty of angling.
One final thought: be prepared to be blanked.
If you're fishing the amazon, don't pee in the water.
When you've got a float to watch, there alwaysseems to be a prospect of something happening immediately.
Angling takes place in a parallel world.
I'm nearly always a better angler on the way home, than when I'm there.
Nelson was good fly-fisher, and continued the pursuit even with his left hand.
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen.
Either they take or they don't: it's as simple as that.
The float is to coarse anglers what the fly is to game anglers and, like flies, most of us carry around far more than we are likely to need.
On March 3 in 1934 Donald Leney bought 50 carp to stock the legendary lake of Redmire.
The barometer is a kind of icon to some fishermen. Given a choice, they'll sit home when it's high and call in sick to work when it starts to fall.
Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
Fish stories improve with age.
Dry-fly fishing is more a woman's than a man's game.
In any exploration involving trout, bridges acquire an almost mystical significance ...
Aesthetically, the finest fishing is float fishing.
Shropshire is full of trout and Tories.
"I'd rather be fishing." Last words of Jimmy Glass executed by electric chair on June 12 in 1987.
There is a pride in knots, of which the laity knows nothing.
Eric Clapton hopes to die while fishing and then be reincarnated as an Aston Martin OM-45 sports car.
Q.: What kind of doctors make fish look younger? A.: Plastic sturgeons
There are more anglers fooled by flies than fish.
The best fishing is to be found in print.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
The angler is a hopeful mortal who ought to know better.
The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.
Caution in fishing is of the essence, especially if you're a fish.
I don't really know what I want. I just have a vision of myself on a boat on a calm, blue sea, quietly fishing and drinking beer.
It always seemed strange for a fisherman to be fishing in one place and at the same time telling us there were plenty of fish only five minutes away.
Q: What fish goes up the river at 100mph? A: A motor pike
For the holiday flyfisher the mullet can provide hours of exquisite frustration - and occasional glorious success.
On July 21 1899 Ernest Hemingway was born (1899 - 1961)
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them, like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcer.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
On August 9 1593 Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) was born.
Never get into an argument with an ignorant fisherman: you have nothing to gain, and he has nothing to lose.
In the morning be first up, and in the evening the last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
The leaping trout sees Far below, a few white clouds As they flow
The angler can have no cold nor discomfort nor anger, unless he be the cause himself.
If fishing interferes with your business, give up your business.
In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.
Q: What did the fish say when it hit the wall? A: Dam!
The trip possessed the clear and attainable objectives of fishing, relaxation, and inebriation.
Please remember, rules are made for a reason and not for breaking.
On 7 October 1922 Miss Georgina Ballantine caught the British record salmon.
Few ghillies can swim, and on the whole it is better so.
Saltwater fly fishing often combines the best qualities of hunting and fishing.
Q: How do you communicate with fish? A: Drop them a line.
Women and fishing just naturally go together - always have abd probably always will.
The thought of fishing sent me wild with excitement.
Q: Why are fish more clever than anglers? A: Ever seen a fish spend a fortune trying to hook an angler?
I can't honestly say that anything I've ever done has given me quite such a kick as fishing. Everything else has been a bit of a flop in comparison, even women.
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