Fishing & Derby Information

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.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

 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.

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.

All the romance of fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.

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

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

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

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I’m dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.

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

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.

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?

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.

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.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just sitting in a boat like an idiot.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

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

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.