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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
Renee: "Trout, get your mind out of the gutter."
Trout: "Can't help it - it's attached to my body.
They should call fishing what it really is ... tricking and killing!
If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.
Best fishing in troubled waters.
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
No need to flatter me, Miss Price. I believe your bait worked. I'm hooked. Line and sinker.
One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.
I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
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!
Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
Use the hook, you
The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is.
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.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.
I love fishing, any kind of fishing.
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.
In a clear brook
With joyful haste
The whimsical trout
Shot past me like an arrow
I play the line of the song, I play the leaps and plunges of the right hand of the piano, I am the trout, the angler, the brook, the observer.
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?
SHUT UP!...PADDLE!
I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.
When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I can bait a hook.'
Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.
One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.
bucket on the deck behind him, bait sloshing. He
I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.
... an expert fisherman knows exactly what flies to offer to what fish.
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
Fishing keeps men boys longer than any other pursuit
Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.
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.
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 ...
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.
(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.
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.
Or whipping its rough surface for a trout ...
You are killing me, fish...
Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.
Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.
You must feel comfortable with that fly rod in your hand before you spend time, money, and emotional capital on a fishing trip.
Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.
Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.
When you get the end of your rope, tie a knot & hold on!
I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.
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.
Hold up. I'm bait?
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.
If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
It was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.
Love well, whip well.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
Na, she's righted again," said a cool young fisherman, "and they've gotten down that unchancy mast. They maun have stout hearts and skeely hands that work her; but it's for life, and that learns folk baith pith and lear. There! - but it's owre now.
I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.
It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.
When there is abundance of fish, we need help to pull the nets.
shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. "Give me
The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.
Swish and flick.
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.
My mind is reeling.
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness
Fish fiddle de-dee!
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
Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers," Gunnar said. "It is the contemplative man's recreation.
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour
or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.
Ropes of silver gliding from sunny thunder into freshness.
Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
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.
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.
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
That was where our fishing began
Did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them, - I tacked.
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white
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?
Wallowing in this bloody sty,
I cast for fish that pleased my eye
Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.
The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman
We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.
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.
I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.