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Fishing is much more than fish…. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
HERBERT HOOVER, New York Times, Aug. 9, 1964
Best fishing in troubled waters.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON, Orlando Furioso
Early in the morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with fishing-reels and slender lunch, and let down their fine lines through the snowy field to take pickerel and perch; wild men, who instinctively follow other fashions and trust other authorities than their townsmen, and by their goings and comings stitch towns together in parts where else they would be ripped. They sit and eat their luncheon in stout fear-naughts on the dry oak leaves on the shore, as wise in natural lore as the citizen is in artificial.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden
We forget that fishing, like politics, is local. Each of us finds something that works for two weeks in a five-acre pond and thinks that he has uncovered a truth universal and eternal.
ART SCHECK, A Fishing Life is Hard Work
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN, Fisherman's Spring
The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.
WILLIAM BASSE, The Angler's Song
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
TOM BROKAW, International Herald Tribune, Sep. 10, 1991
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
The joy of game fishing is that it can be blissfully indiscriminate. A complete novice could inadvertently find himself on the business-end of the world's most acrobatic and hardest-fighting fish -- a sensation which is like a learner-driver suddenly finding himself behind the wheel of a racing Ferrari, with his foot pushed flat to the floor.
LEN CACUTT, The Big-Game Fishing Handbook
Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
WILLIAM SHERWOOD FOX, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia
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