Your Favourite Fishing Quote

David Dalton · Jan 23, 2013

This is mine:

"It cannot be said too often - fishing is worth just the pleasure it gives"

Bernard Venables, "A Prospect Of Angling"

If I ever find myself taking fishing too seriously, reading this brings it all back into perspective.

binka · Jan 23, 2013

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

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Jan 23, 2013

"I'll be glad when I've had enough of this"

one of the Taylor brother???

Fred Bonney · Jan 23, 2013

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
Izaak Walton

noknot · Jan 23, 2013

"Turkies, Carps, Hops, Pickerell, and Beer,
Came into England all in one year."

Nuff said!

bigfish74 · Jan 23, 2013

you aint gonna catch sat in the house

unknown
and yes i use it as much as possible to the mrs

andy

tiinker · Jan 23, 2013

WILLIAM CAIN: from Fish, Fishing and Fisherman [1927]
Is it a lie that fishermen lie.
A lie is a statement made with intent to deceive No fisherman makes such statements. For since every fisherman to whom another fisherman asserts that, on such a day in such a place, he slew so many trouts or barbels or whitebaits, weighing so much - since every such fisherman automatically divides number and weight number and weight by three halves that and knocks off ninety per cent from the quotient [or whatever it is], he I mean the first fisherman - when in his turn he tells the story of the same sort to yet another, a third fisherman, confidentily expects that the third fisherman to treat his [the first's] in the same fashion. Now such a man may not justly be accused of lying. He does no more than follow a well-recognised and convenient custom.

aebitim · Jan 23, 2013

The nice thing about a float is its disapearance. Fred J

My centrepins better than yours. F.M.

itsfishingnotcatching · Jan 23, 2013

"Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught".

I think someone on here has it as a signature

barbelboi · Jan 23, 2013

'The efficient roach angler need never suffer from an inferiority complex, no matter what branch of fishing he may eventually take up.
My honest opinion is that salmon and trout fishing are simple by comparison'.
Capt. L. A. Parker

guest61 · Jan 23, 2013

jaws clip: "You're going to need a bigger boat" - YouTube

ravey · Jan 23, 2013

"Change nothing, and you will learn nothing. It's as simple as that."

Ivan Marks 1974

We've all been guilty, haven't we?

mark brailsford 2 · Jan 23, 2013

"Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it"

Norman McLean

I blubber every time I watch the end of that great movie. Beautifully written words.

S-Kippy · Jan 23, 2013

Not my favourite but the one I've heard most often

"You should have been here yesterday/last week"

Jeff Woodhouse · Jan 23, 2013

"They all count!" - Peter Stone.

"What do they know of fishing who know only one fish and one way to fish for him?" Jack Hargreaves

"Help yourself to any of my tackle once more, Deanos, and I'll smack you right in the mouth!" Sean Meeghan....

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Philip · Jan 23, 2013

The appeal of Angling is the continual anticipation of catching something elusive yet obtainable.

...some non angler I believe attempting to quantify why we go fishing.

peter crabtree · Jan 23, 2013

Last week this swim was black with roach...

Vis lake's done a firty...

I aint had a bite. Reckon this has been poached...

I caught 300 carp in one day.

I caught 400 carp in one day?

Record tench and perch holder??

benny samways · Jan 28, 2013

You missed a bit Phillip....

The appeal of Angling is the continual anticipation of catching something elusive yet obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

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Philip · Jan 28, 2013

benny samways said:
You missed a bit Phillip....

The appeal of Angling is the continual anticipation of catching something elusive yet obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Yes your right....in essance it boils down to a continual sense that something COULD happen at any second & thus a never ending cycle of hope.

...yep, must remind myself of that next time I am freezing my a**e off blanking...

dezza · Jan 29, 2013

"When we go fishing, it is not the fish that we want; what we desire is the pleasure that is obtained from overcoming the difficulties of catching them."

Richard Stuart Walker

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