Quotes
Fishing quotes and thoughts
by
some famous and not so famous anglers...
Wayne Real
Already in 1949, a Swiss manufactured asked father if ABU would object it it selling its Swiss-made spinning reel, also named Record, in Sweden. Since ABU was not yet producing spinning reels, ABU decided to buy the parts to this reel from Switzerland and assemble it in Sweden. It was called the Record 500. Eventually, ABU made improvements to the reel and began to produce it entirely in Sweden. This became the Record 700....
Re ABU 20/30 IGFA
......The reel worked perfectly, but it was much too heavy, so we cancelled the project. Today, one can probably produce the same reel out of much lighter modern materials that are just as strong as stainless steel.
W
On the banks of
W
[50 years ago]
You will search far to find a fisherman to admit a taste for fishing, like a taste for liquor, must be governed lest it come to possess the possessor...
Sparse Grey Hackle, 'Fishless Days' 1954
Fishing and ABU has brought friends together across the globe.
My recent 2 weeks fishing with Swedish mate Uffe Edefuhr was very special and will always be a great memory.
Maybe one day in Sweden, I will catch a dozen species!
Wayne Real
John Buchan
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A.K. Best
Even if you've been fishing for hours and haven't caught anything
except a few cuts , stings and some sunburn,
You're still a lot better off than the bait.
Author Unknown
The
best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and
over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes
and to remember what they learned from them.
John Gierach
"Fly
Fishing the High Country"
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish. They just want to make it late for something.
Ernest Hemingway
In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory.
So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the
thrill of angling would be gone.
Ray Bergman
Catch and Release fishing is a lot like golf. You don't have to always eat the ball to have a good time.
Unknown
No man is born an artist
or
an Angler
Izaak Walton 1653
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted
line. He caught every other fish.
Anon
We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish?
William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and
Silver Hooks, 1954
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 favourite, was a dry-fly fisherman.
are born fishermen. For a man to
admit a distaste for fishing would be
like denouncing mother-love
or hating moonlight.
John Steinbeck
Fishers and fish are very much alike.
They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.
Author Unknown
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt.
Izaak Walton.
Of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most
trustworthy.
William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
Chinese Proverb
You
don't have to eat the ball to have a good time
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't
know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under
there.
Robert Altman
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish only for
fish and those who fish for sport.
Author Unknown
I think I fish, in part,
because it's an anti-social,
bohemian business that,
when gone about properly,
puts you forever
outside the mainstream culture
without actually landing
you in an institution.
John
Gierach
I PRAY THAT GOD WILL SEND ME
A FISH SO BIG THAT EVEN I
WHEN TALKING OF IT AFTERWARDS
WILL HAVE NO NEED TO LIE!
Irish Blessing
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men
into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to
buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
Patrick F. McManus
I
am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of
the unworthy from discovering trout...
Paul O'Neil
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, 1954
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with
them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.
Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part,
1949
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, 1951
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish
and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
Zenna Schaffer
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive
but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours
spent in fishing.
Babylonian Proverb
You do not cease to fish because you get old,
You get old because you cease to fish!
Writer unknown
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his
intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
John Steinbeck
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
Irish Blessing
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
Author unknown
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large
fish goes home through an alley.
Author Unknown
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after
Henry David Thoreau
