Very Fishy Quotes


"My biggest worry is that my wife, when I'm dead, will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it."
Koos Brandt


"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


"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration."
 Izaac Walton


"When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing."
Howell Raines, author of Fly Fishing Through The Midlife Crisis in 1993


"It is just possible that nice guys don't catch the most fish. But they find far more pleasure in those they do get."
Roderick Haig-Brown 1960


"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him/her the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
Rachel Carson


"If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.”
David Sobel, Beyond Ecophobia

"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