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• All I need to know about life, I learned from Fishing
• A bad fishing day is when you can't fish
• Catch and Release fishing is a lot like golf. You don't have to eat the ball to have a good time.
• Caution: there's something fishy about this guy.
• Early to bed, early to rise, fish all day and make up lies
• Everyone has a story about the one that got away
• A fisherman and a normal person live here
• Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. (Ed Zern)
• Fishermen don't yield to the weather. (Jack MacKinnon)
• A fisherman is a jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other.
• A Fisherman's Favorite line has a worm on the end of it.
• A fisherman lives here with the catch of his life.
• The fishing is a tough job, but I'm willing to tackle it.
• The fishing is always better on the other side of the lake.
• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. (Dave Barry)
• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. (Herbert Hoover)
• A fishing line has a hook on one end and an optimist on the other
• Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed. (John Voelker)
• Fishing: The art of casting, trolling, jigging or spinning while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing
• The Fishing was good, it was the catching that was bad. (A. K. Best)
• Fly fishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is, and that everyone is getting more than their share. Henry Kanemoto)
• Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. (Arnold Gingrich)
• Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once. (Lee Wulff)
• Good things come to those who bait.
• I don't exaggerate...I just remember BIG!
• I mostly just fish for the halibut.
• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. (Doug Larson)
• I'm hooked on fishing.
• Haven't had much luck fishing - but I did marry the catch of my life
• Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Henry David Thoreau)
• 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)
• My rod and my reel, they comfort me. (St. Pete 12 lb. test)
• Never open a can of worms unless you plan on fishing
• Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
• Notice: This is the home of a serious fisherman. Chances are it will not be occupied during fishing season.
• An old fisherman lives here...with the catch of his life.
• Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful. (Charles Kuralt)
• Old Fishermen never die, they just smell that way
• Reel fishermen can tackle anything!
• 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)
• 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)
• A smart wife is one who has pork chops ready when her husband comes home from a fishing trip.
• Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God. (Tony Blake)
• 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)
• There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.
• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of mind. (Washington Irving)
• There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot! (Steven Wright)
• Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. (Chuck Clark)
• When I'm tired and can't sleep, I count fish instead of sheep
• Whoever said 'A bad day of fishing is always better than a good day at work.' Never had their boat sink.
• Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

Fisherman's Prayer

God give me strength to catch a fish,
So big that even I,
When telling of it afterwards,
Have no need to lie.

Fishing

When I go fishing
I'm always wishing
Some fish will be my prize;
But while I'm fishing,
The fish are wishing
Otherwise.

And all the wishes
Of all the fishes
Seem always to come true;
So all my wishes
To catch some fishes
Never do.

The Fishing Pole

(Mary Caroline Davies)

A fishing pole's a curious thing;
It's made of just a stick and string;
A boy at one end and a wish,
And on the other end a fish.

Fishing Nooks

(Edgar Guest)

"Men will grow weary," said the Lord,
"Of working for their bed and board.
They'll weary of the money chase
And want to find a resting place
Where hum of wheel is never heard
And no one speaks an angry word,
And selfishness and greed and pride
And petty motives don't abide.
They'll need a place where they can go
To wash their souls as white as snow.
They will be better men and true
If they can play a day or two."

The Lord then made the brooks to flow
And fashioned rivers here below,
And many lakes; for water seems
Best suited for a mortal's dreams.
He placed about them willow trees
To catch the murmur of the breeze,
And sent the birds that sing the best
Among the foliage to nest.
He filled each pond and stream and lake
With fish for man to come and take;
Then stretched a velvet carpet deep
On which a weary soul could sleep.

It seemed to me the Good Lord knew
That man would want something to do
When worn and wearied with the stress
Of battling hard for world success.
When sick at heart of all the strife
And pettiness of daily life,
He knew he'd need, from time to time,
To cleanse himself of city grime,
And he would want some place to be
Where hate and greed he'd never see.
And so on lakes and streams and brooks
The Good Lord fashioned fishing nooks.

Give a man a fish...

and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish; and you will not have to listen to his incessant whining about how hungry he is.
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish; and you can sell him fishing equipment.
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish - and you've got the whole weekend to yourself.
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in the boat and drink beer all day.
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
and you feed him for a day. Unless he doesn't like sushi - then you also have to teach him to cook. (Auren Hoffman)
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.
and you feed him for a day. Teach him about religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. (Timothy Jones)
and you feed him for a day. Give him fish aversion therapy, and you eliminate the craving for life.