Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls… – Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991

Even a bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. – Author Unknown

Work is for those who do not fly fish.

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

Carpe Diem does not mean “fish of the day.” – Author Unknown

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don’t any of these guys ever go fishing? – Dave Shiflett

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. – Herbert Hoover

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

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

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

The awkward fisherman does nothing but disturb the water.

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. – Nick Lyons

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. – Jack Handey

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. – Paul O’Neil, 1965

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. – Henry David Thoreau

Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. – William Sherwood Fox

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. – P Schullery

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. – Patrick F. McManus

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. – Ernest Hemingway

The best way to a fisherman’s heart is through his fly. – Author Unknown

Good things come to those who bait. – Author Unknown

All fishermen are liars; it’s an occupational disease with them like housemaid’s knee or editor’s ulcers. – Beatrice Cook

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. – A.K. Best

Fishing is a… discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish. – Herbert Hoover

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

Even if you’ve been fishing for three hours and haven’t gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you’re still better off than the worm. – Author Unknown