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Never leave fish to find fish.
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.
You can catch fishes with baits and men with bright colours!
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
All is fish that comth to net.
Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.
There was a trout.
It is the yearning I sense in you that lures me.
If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,
You have to go places quite out of the way,
You have to go places no others can get to.
You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.
[A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Best fishing in troubled waters.
I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait.
If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
When there is abundance of fish, we need help to pull the nets.
A good
trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment.
It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what's coming,
they'll bolt.
This is what I love about the Kimberley ... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure
of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure,
to find.
All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze ... My charming rod, my potent river spells ...
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries,
The smell of the sea.
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
To snatch the worm from the trap.
Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'
I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
These lines are hooks, I'm fishing unknown seas.
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
I'm a fish swimming by Ray. Catch me if you want me.
Weakness is an irresistible lure.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
He had never seen fly-fishing like this before. There were wet flies, and there were dry flies, but this fly augured into the water with a saw-toothed whine and dragged the fish out backwards.
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
If you are a fish charging at bait, then it usually doesn't end well.
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
Fishing keeps men boys longer than any other pursuit
I love fishing, any kind of fishing.
Come up fish. Come to Quint.
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ...
They should call fishing what it really is ... tricking and killing!
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.
All you know is
you must change sail
to catch it.
I gather/You hunt/We both miss the trap
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.
Then there is the excitement as a fish takes this daintiest of offerings, this sleight-of-hand made of fur and feather. Each sparkling fish you release is a bond to wildness.
He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.
For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature
Don't bait the cougars.
The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
The seeker is the sought.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.
I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
Use the hook, you
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ...
Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
The rule of fishes is the same as the rule of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. They share a single jumpy heart that drives them to move all together, running away from danger just before it arrives. Somehow they know. Underneath
Catch Catodon ... cast out his conation.
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?
Keep your eye on the prey
For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.
But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.
For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.
But one creature said at last, I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
(Fishing) is as boring as boring gets. And then when it's finally not boring and you have a fish on the line it turns into a crime scene with a wooden club and a crazy amount of hitting.
And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!
... an expert fisherman knows exactly what flies to offer to what fish.
If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.
The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are very important in that they make it easier to do the things which bring success and in some cases are essential to success.
Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.
Full moon is a good fisherman; every eyes are easily caught in his net!
I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.
Stupid little fish
There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said.
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
A trap is as someone else hunting for you when you can't, it is truly your best hunting buddy!
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.